Michael Graves Images of a Grand Tour /

• Main Author: Ambroziak, Brian M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Architects.; Architecture / Design.

Michael Graves the extraordinary experience of two years at the American Academy in Rome in the early 1960 s transformed how I looked at the world around me. In that rich and marvelous city, I came to understand architecture as a continuum from antiquity to the present day, and thus as a language. I...

Table of Contents:

• Sir John Soane’s Grand Tour: Its Impact on His Architecture and His Collections
• The Necessity for Seeing
• Plates
• Rome
• Other Italian Locales
• Greece
• Turkey
• France
• Spain
• United Kingdom
• The Necessity for Drawing
• The Necessity for Drawing
• Graves’s Travels: Giants and Dwarfs
• Volume, Surface, and Plan.