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Brian Hanson examines how the authority of architects was created within the changing working practices of eighteenth and nineteenth century British architecture. Incorporating new methods, he compares diverse figures, such as Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott, and Street, and provides a new context for Ruskin's arguments about "The Nature of Gothic." He demonstrates how Ruskin is closer to the classical tradition represented by Chambers than the Arts and Crafts Movement of Webb and Morris, which he supposedly inspired.
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9780521811866 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 13, 2003, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: Brian Hanson examines how the authority of architects was created within the changing working practices of eighteenth and nineteenth century British architecture.

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9781107403314, titled "Architects and the "Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing Authority" | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $36.99

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Product Description: "The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise. Modernists, notably the Bauhäusler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before...read more
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9783937954097 | 3 edition (Isi Books, May 1, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: "The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise.

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