Download or read book Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950 written by Peter Collins and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture revolutionized the understanding of modernism in architecture, pushing back the sense of its origin from the early twentieth century to the 1750s and thus placing architectural thought within the a broader context of Western intellectual history. This new edition of Peter Collins's ground-breaking study includes all seventy-two illustrations of the original hard cover edition, which has been out of print since 1967, and restores the large format.