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Neoclassical architecture
The neoclassical movement that produced Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. Siegfried Giedion, whose first book (1922) had the suggestive title Late Baroque and Romantic Classicism, asserted laterIn Space, Time and Architecture (1961 ed.
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