Ruins as Architecture: Architecture as Ruins (Monograph

by Thomas J. McCormick

Thomas J. McCormick, a noted scholar of the century of Enlightenment, examines the phenomenon of the creation of man-made ruins as an architectural form. Picturesque grottos, Gothic Temples and ruins to be inhabited by a hermit are the focus of McCormick's study as he looks at these frequently playful yet melancholy monuments.

Table of Contents

Momento Mori
The English Landscape
Continental Europe
Chambers and Adams
Piranesi's Prints
Clérisseau
Elsewhere in Europe
American Versions
Notes

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000