240 pages, cloth/hardback, 242 x 168 mm, 120 illus.
PRICE: £30.00
ISBN: 978 1 903470 12 1
This book presents an overview of the restoration Venice has undergone in the last two hundred years. It is a mistake to think that Venice has been preserved in aspic. A great deal changed after the Fall of the Republic in 1797, and continues to change. Having read this book, you will never look upon Venice’s streets, houses and canals in the same way again.
Only by studying the past can we understand the present situation of Venice. This is an untold story that needs to be heard. Its fascinating, often shocking tale is belied by the numerous beautiful illustrations.
Cornerstone, The Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings describes is as a “wonderful polemical book”.
“Pertot is commendably hard to please” Jonathan Keates, Times Literary Supplement
The author is a conservation architect in Milan.
“I am not a modernist but ... I agree with the modernists in every way except that I think their brand of modernism is not very good.” Raymond Erith looked to achieve what he called the true “economy of means”, using traditional means to create original buildings with progressive ideas behind them. More