Travels in the History of Architecture by Robert Harbison

Travels in the History of Architecture by Robert Harbison

Robert Harbison's book is a broad ranging approach that frequently ventures outside perceived boundaries and presents a fresh view of the history of architecture based on close readings of choice examples, from ancient temples to twenty-first-century museums.

'[An] extraordinary interpretation of Western architecture.. Harbison's expression of his personal and professional views is unbelievably shattering and breathtaking; he has the capacity to alter the entire history of Western architecture for 100 years to come.' Library Journal 'On its broadly chronological journey from the Egyptians to Modernists, via Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque and Historicist architecture, this book is filled with acute perceptions and fine descriptions ... its insights make you want to travel and see.' History Today 'Robert Harbison is a deliciously poetic architectural historian who pursues ideas like scents running hither and thither. His rich work always makes a refreshing and readable change from the exhaustive PhD-disciplined linear conventionality of his contemporaries - he believes in his own thinking ... of all Harbison's books this is the one most likely to unexpectedly get under your skin.' RIBA Journal 'Robert Harbison's elegant erudition beguiles ... [he] observes and describes things in a way all too rare in architectural criticism ... beautifully written.' Building Design 'Robert Harbison is not one of those historians who tries to blast you out of the water with his authority - his is a gentle voice, full of knowledge and wit, thoughtful and contemplative. As you read this book you feel not that you are being lectured at, but, as the title suggests, that you are travelling in time; and Harbison makes a fine travelling companion. Whatever you are doing with old buildings, whether visiting them, reading about them, looking at pictures of them or even just remembering them, you will want to have this book near at hand.' -- Paul Shepheard, author of Artifical Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture and The Cultivated Wilderness

Robert Harbison is former Professor of Architecture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of many books including Eccentric Spaces (1977), The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable (1991), Reflections on Baroque (Reaktion, 2000), Travels in the History of Architecture (Reaktion, 2010) and Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery (Reaktion, 2015).

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ISBN 13	9781861898180
ISBN 10	1861898185
Title	Travels in the History of Architecture
Author	Robert Harbison
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	2011-02-01
Number of pages	288
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