Document Type
Book Review
Date
2010
Keywords
print media, architectural criticism, power, Habermas, ancien regime, 18th Century France
Language
English
Disciplines
Architectural History and Criticism | Architecture
Description/Abstract
This review of Richard Whitman's Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2007) examines the relationship between architectural discourse and political power in Frame from 1671 until the end of the ancient regime. The volume successfully foregrounds the socio-political functions of architectural writing, though the use of Habermas' thesis proves to be less convincing. Some of his arguments also tend to be simplistic or schematics .Nonetheless, this volume is a valuable contribution to the study of French architecture during the eighteenth century.
ISSN
1553-9172
Recommended Citation
Bédard, Jean-François, "REVIEW: Richard Whitman, Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France" (2010). School of Architecture - All Scholarship. 237.
https://surface.syr.edu/arc/237
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