Background
Richard Etlin was born on the 28th of February in New York City, United States.
(In the eighteenth century Paris underwent a remarkable tr...)
In the eighteenth century Paris underwent a remarkable transformation in Western attitudes about life and death. The Architecture of Death traces this change through six pivotal decades, and analyzes the intellectual and social concerns that led to the establishment of a new kind of urban institution - the municipal cemetery.
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1984
(The original and controversial architecture of Frank Lloy...)
The original and controversial architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier has had a profound influence on 20th-century architecture worldwide. In this fully-illustrated work Etlin offers his insights into the influence that formed the basis for the architectural development of arguably the greatest architects of the 20th century. He focuses on the main principles of progressive 19th-century architectural thought: the architectural system; the picturesque; philosphical eclecticism; and the spirit of the times. These principles, which have guided modern architecture over the past 200 years, are explored in great detail in relation to 19th- and 20th-century architecture, and clearly demonstrate their fundamental importance to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Richard Etlin was awarded book prizes from the Society of Architectural Historians, the Association of American Publishers and the American Institute of Architects for his previous publication, "Modernism in Italian Architecture 1890-1840" (MIT, 1991).
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1994
(Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarc...)
Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarchies established in eighteenth-century France to illustrate how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth-century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he shows how the work of these architects was informed by considerations of symbolic space. For Etlin, the eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces. He focuses on the design theory of Boullée and Durand and charts their legacy through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn. He defines the distinctive features of neoclassicism and outlines the new grammar for classical architecture articulated by theorists and architects such as Laugier, Leroy, and Ledoux. After discussing the eighteenth-century hôtel, revolutionary space, and the transformation of the image of the cemetery, Etlin examines the space of absence as embodied in commemorative architecture from Boullée and Gilly to Cret, Wright, and Terragni. His book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today. Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarchies established in eighteenth-century France to illustrate how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth-century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he shows how the work of these architects was informed by considerations of symbolic space. For Etlin, the eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces. He focuses on the design theory of Boullée and Durand and charts their legacy through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn. He defines the distinctive features of neoclassicism and outlines the new grammar for classical architecture articulated by theorists and architects such as Laugier, Leroy, and Ledoux. After discussing the eighteenth-century hôtel, revolutionary space, and the transformation of the image of the cemetery, Etlin examines the space of absence as embodied in commemorative architecture from Boullée and Gilly to Cret, Wright, and Terragni. His book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.
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1996
(In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is ...)
In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is a response to the critique of traditional humanism. In simple, clear language, Richard Etlin articulates the nature of aesthetic experience through analysis of works in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, architecture, drawing, literature, and dance. Establishing categories for determining value in the arts and letters, Etlin also explores the operations of the creative process in a discussion of artistic genius, reaffirming the transcendent moral and enduring qualities in great works of art.
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1996
Richard Etlin was born on the 28th of February in New York City, United States.
Richard A. Etlin studied at Princeton University and received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969. Then he decided to continue his studying there and got the Master of Architecture degree in 1972. And finally he became a Doctor of Philosophy.
Richard Etlin received the position of assistant professor of architectural history at University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1975. He has held it till 1981. He was a faculty member at University of Maryland at College Park during the years 1981-1989, from 1989 he received a position of architectural history professor. In 1987 he was on the position of visiting associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.
(The original and controversial architecture of Frank Lloy...)
1994(In the eighteenth century Paris underwent a remarkable tr...)
1984(In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is ...)
1996(Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarc...)
1996
