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The Lamp of memory : Ruskin, tradition, and architecture

Concerns the concept of tradition in Ruskin's work on architecture in the 19th century, the implications of his work for architecture today and the issue of tradition in contemporary architecture. His approach to the whole question of why and how we should build is explored.
Print Book, English, ©1992
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, UK, New York, ©1992
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780719037108, 0719037107
25008158
Ruskin and tradition : the case of French Gothic / Alison Milbank
Ruskin and tradition : the case of museums / John Illingworth
Ruskin and the tradition of Renaissance historiography / J.B. Bullen
Ruskin among the ruins : tradition and the temple / Michael Wheeler
The stains of time : Ruskin and romantic discourses of tradition / Keith Hanley
Ruskin and architecture : the argument of the text / Paul Hatton
"For the sake of the subject" : Ruskin and the tradition of architectural illustration / Ray Haslam
"Black skeleton and blinding square" (with an introductory note by Nigel Whiteley) / Peter Fuller
"Falsehood in a Ciceronian dialect"? : the "Ruskinian" tradition, Modernism, and the rise of the classical tradition in contemporary architecture / Nigel Whiteley. John Ruskin, "The lamp of Memory", from The seven lamps of architecture (with an introductory note by Michael Wheeler) / John Ruskin