Housing the New Romans - Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World

This volume of scholarly essays investigates how the reception of Classical Greece and Rome and ancient Egypt redeployed Classicizing and Egyptianizing tropes in the 19th and 20th Centuries to create a new cultural hybrid: the Neo-Antique "dwelling."

About the author

Katharine T. von Stackelberg is a historian and Latinist specializing in the representation of gardens and the ancient environment as cultural space in Classical Rome. She is the author of The Roman Garden: Space, Sense and Society (2009) and articles on the politics of Roman gardens and their representation of gender in both ancient and modern contexts.

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is an archaeologist and architectural historian who focuses on the architecture and gardens of ancient Rome, as well as their reception. She has published over a dozen articles on Roman gardens and architecture and their reception in the Classical Reception Journal, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She also examines Islamic Architecture in Syria and Egypt and its connections to the Classical World.

Summary

This volume of scholarly essays investigates how the reception of Classical Greece and Rome and ancient Egypt redeployed Classicizing and Egyptianizing tropes in the 19th and 20th Centuries to create a new cultural hybrid: the Neo-Antique "dwelling."

Additional text

The innovatic collection of essays ... opens our eyes to the critical re-examiniation of classically-inspired architecture and design between the mid-eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries in Europe and the US. ... the book charts a course for a fruitful collaboration between classics and classical reception.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Katharine T. Von (Brock University) M Stackelberg, Katharine T. (EDT)/ Macaulay-Lewi Von Stackelberg
• Assisted by: E. (City University of New York) Macaulay-Lewis (Editor), Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (Editor), Macaulay-Lewis E. (Editor), Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Editor), Katharine T. von (Brock University) Stackelberg (Editor), Stackelberg Katharine T. von (Editor), Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780190272333
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027233-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation