Origins of Functionalist Theory

Résumé du livre

Of a century of functionalism -- Classical origins of functionalism -- Medieval foundation and sublimation -- Form and function from the Renaissance -- British moralism, rationalism and naturalism -- The functionalism of Ruskin and his early contemporaries -- Rationalist functionalism in eighteenth-century France -- Early nineteenth-century French academicians -- The Italo-German axis of functionalism, Neoclassic and Romantic -- Earlly American contributions to the literature of functionalism -- Retrospect and prospect.