The history of the architecture of European countries of the XIX century

"This book tells about the architecture of all the main countries of Europe of the 19th century. For the first time, architecture of the entire European continent of this period, including Russia, is considered as a whole: both geographically and historically. Usually this century in the history of art was not lucky. It was cut into pieces, connecting the first half with the classicism of the Enlightenment, and the second half and especially the end of the century was considered as the forerunner of the latest time - the age of XX. In addition, the identity and great discoveries, together with the changes that occurred in the construction art of Europe, supplanted the denial of multi -sides or eclecticism from the Marxist attitude to art as directions that had their patterns, theory, artistic values, and, probably, the future.
The discovery of ways to use new building materials (steel, concrete and glass), the massive use of metal structures while maintaining a passionate neuromantic passion for historical styles and ethnographic manners of literally all the peoples of the world and, most importantly, expression in the architecture of the 19th century of the spiritual and material life of the new A person who has already begun to quickly change the entire life of the Earth, transfers a story about the European architecture of this century into a significant, as it seems to us, part of the history of world architecture.
Designed for architects, art historians and the general public, especially for those who are interested in the history of architecture. "