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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Bibliographie |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Persistence of the classical. London : Philip Wilson Pub., 2008 (OCoLC)608378685 |
Named Person: | David Watkin; David Watkin; David Watkin; David Watkin |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank Salmon; David Watkin |
ISBN: | 9780856676611 0856676616 |
OCLC Number: | 262888622 |
Description: | xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Theories, histories and writers -- Neo-classical and nineteenth-century studies -- Classicism and the picturesque in the twentieth century. |
Other Titles: | Essays on architecture presented to David Watkin |
Responsibility: | edited by Frank Salmon. |
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""This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on an occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful biography of David Watkin's writings published between 1961 and 2008."" -- Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 February 2009""Salmon's team has produced an elegant tribute...All in all, it is a satisfying read and a fine tribute to a great historian who has had the guts to stick his neck out on more than one occasion."" -- THES 19 February 2009 "This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on an occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful biography of David Watkin's writings published between 1961 and 2008." -- "Times Higher Education Supplement," 19 February 2009"Salmon's team has produced an elegant tribute...All in all, it is a satisfying read and a fine tribute to a great historian who has had the guts to stick his neck out on more than one occasion." -- "THES" 19 February 2009 ""This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on an occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful biography of David Watkin's writings published between 1961 and 2008."" -- "Times Higher Education Supplement," 19 February 2009""Salmon's team has produced an elegant tribute...All in all, it is a satisfying read and a fine tribute to a great historian who has had the guts to stick his neck out on more than one occasion."" -- "THES" 19 February 2009 Read more...

