Background
Etlin, Richard Allan was born on February 28, 1947 in New York City. Son of Ben and Mildred Frances (Leon) Etlin.
(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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(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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( Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hiera...)
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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(Winner, category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the...)
Winner, category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the 1991 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. and Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians. Richard Etlin's sweeping, generously illustrated study explores the changing idea of modernism in Italian architecture over the five crucial decades that saw the birth and crystallization of modern architecture. Systematically treating the major architects and movements of the period—such as Raimondo D'Aronoco and Art Nouveau, Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurism, Marcello Piacentini and the modern vernacular, Giovanni Muzio and the Novecento, Giuseppe Terragni and Italian Rationalism—this book also explores the ways in which the original ideals of the various movements were transformed by working for the Fascist state. Modernism in Italian Architecture examines the legacy of the romantic revolution, which confronted architects with the dilemma of how to create an architecture that was both modern and national. It challenges accepted opinion on a variety of issues. Etlin argues against too close an association of Sant'Elia's architecture and manifesto with Futurism by demonstrating a broader context for its themes. His study of Novecento architecture chronicles a movement whose use of classical detailing created a "postmodernism" contemporaneous with the pioneering buildings of the International Style elsewhere in Europe and preceding its arrival in Italy. Etlin undermines the notion that the architects of Italian Rationalism blindly followed an antihistorical credo, by bringing to fight the profoundly contextual nature of the abstract geometries of the best Rationalist architecture. The final section, devoted to Fascism, focuses on Terragni's famous Casa del Fascio in Como and the Danteurn project by Terragni and Lingeri. Etlin concludes with a consideration of the anti-Semitic attacks on modern architecture during the Fascist racial campaign of 1938.
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Etlin, Richard Allan was born on February 28, 1947 in New York City. Son of Ben and Mildred Frances (Leon) Etlin.
Bachelor cum laude, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1969. Master of Architecture, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy in Architecutral History, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1978.
Assistant professor College Architecture, University Kentucky, Lexington, 1975-1981, University Maryland, College Park, 1981-1983, associate professor, 1983-1989, professor architecture, 1989-2000, Wilson H Elkins professor, 1997-1998, distinguished university professor, since 2000. Visiting professor Columbia University Graduate School Architect, 1991. Visiting associate professor history of art Johns Hopkins University, 1987.
Guest critic, advisor European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, 1980-1981. Visiting assistant professor School Architecture University Virginia, 1981. Co-director European summer program University Kentucky, 1979.
Distinguished lecturer committee Graduate School, since 1993. Internal review committee Center Renaissance and Baroque Studies, College Arts and Humanities, faculty advisory board, 1982-1997. Faculty review committee Individual Studies, since 1990.
Director restoring ancient Stabiae project University Maryland School Architect. Senior fellow landscape architect Dumbarton Oaks, since 1999.
(Winner, category of Architecture and Urban Studies in the...)
(In the eighteenth century Paris underwent a remarkable tr...)
(In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is ...)
( Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hiera...)
( Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hiera...)
Board of directors Historic Northside Neighborhood Association, Lexington, Kentucky, 1978-1979. Member Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome, Society Architectural Historians, College Art Association, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.