Claudio Silveira Amaral received his Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism from the Universidade de São Paulo. He is currently a professor at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 0-7734-1573-4 This text is the first to examine Ruskin’s architecture as but one product, along with his political and philosophical views, of his internal logic. The text further examines the influence of that logic on Brazil’s industrialization efforts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.