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Classical Architecture
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Author
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Demetri Porphyrios.
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Publisher
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Papadakis
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.3
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6.1
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0.5
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ISBN
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9781901092684
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Pages/Publication Date
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155/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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30076
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Description
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This compact yet detailed and abundantly illustrated book offers a perceptive exploration of architecture as the art of building, tracing roots back to ancient Greece and Rome. A practicing architect as well as a professor and theorist in architecture, Demetri Porphyrios discusses the roles of imitation, tectonics, ornament, and originality in architecture, arguing that the "classical" is that which speaks of tradition although in a modern voice. "A work is classical," he posits, "not because it is immutable, eternal, and sacred but because it continually searches for and brings out the new."
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