The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century (Inscribed by the author) (1980)

Portrays the complex of social and personal relationships, patronage, humanistic learning and mystical and hermetic philosophy that made up the world of the “classic” in Europe from around 1650 to 1775. Against this background, it traces a subtle but revolutionary change that occurred in European architecture and which aroused issues that still echo in the debates between architectural rationalists and modernists and between modernists and post-modernists. Inscribed by the author to front endpaper.  Condition: some light spotting to boards. Dust-wrapper lightly worn and edge-creased. Slight spotting to prelims, endpapers and edges of text block.