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Professor Scruton taught at Boston University. He is editor of theSalisbury Review, and a frequent contributor to international journals.
Roger Scruton is author ofThe Meaning of Conservatism (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980), and ofConservative Thinkers and ofConservative Thoughts, both subtitledEssays from the Salisbury Review (both London: Claridge Press, 1988, and the latter also Lexington, GA: Claridge Press, 1988). Scruton also is editor ofConservative Texts (Hampshire: Macmillan, 1991, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) among other volumes of collected essays. His most recent work isModern Philosophy: An Introduction (New York: Penguin, 1994), with sections on aesthetics in chapter 29, “Subjective spirit”, pp. 438–457, and remarks on the aesthetic experience of architecture, p. 448 f. His other works are too numerous to mention here.
Roger Scruton until 1992 was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College London.
Roger Scruton,The Aesthetics of Architecture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.) The publisher has listed in this volume only two others, Likewise appearing under the same imprint.
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The Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture is located at London.
See Falatko, “Classical Education,” note 5 above.Architecture 83 no. 11, November 1994, 117–123.
The exhibition, comprised of magnificent architectural drawings prepared for international competitions, most of them huge and multicolored, opened on 29 October, 1975 and closed on 4 January, 1976.
For Donald Rattner's Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, see the notice inInternational Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) 2 (1995/96) 312–313. Classical America was founded in 1968 by the well-known advocate of Neoclassical architecture, Henry Hope Reed, together with architect Alvin Holm. The Classical Architecture League, Inc. is based in Washington, DC. Both Organizations have sponsored conferences devoted to the classical tradition in architecture and urban design.
The Prince of Wales' advocacy of classical architecture has been mentioned (footnote 6).
Harvey Cox, “The Warring Visions of the Religious Right,”Atlantic Monthly 276 no. 5, November 1995, 56–69.
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Malo, P. The classical vernacular. Architectural principles in an age of Nihilism. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2, 443–452 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02678069
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