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Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

Branko Mitrović ORO Editions, Gordon Goff, 2022

Branko Mitrović was a valued member of staff at Unitec in Auckland where he taught classical architecture, a subject that tended to be dismissed by colleagues because of its association with other places and times. Mitrović had long criticised the notion of the zeitgeist and, as Alan Colquhoun has pointed out in , “The facts suggest that classicism cannot be identified objectively with any Mitrović has also written , where he says: “Palladio has much to teach us and it is appropriate to look at his works not only to learn about his times, but also to learn how to apply his design principles to the architecture of the present”. Mitrović has doctorates in philosophy and architecture and is the author of .

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