British Architectural Theory 1540-1750: An Anthology of TextsCaroline van Eck Routledge, 05/02/2018 - 282 من الصفحات This title was published in 2003.Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude such easy classification, such as the prolonged (but hardly studied) discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises. This collection of English writing on architecture from 1540 to 1750 offers a large selection of fragments, some of them never published before. They discuss the nature of architecture, the practicalities of building, the sense of the past, religious architecture and classicism. |
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Robert Stickells two texts on design 1597 | |
Notes | |
Thomas Hobbes from Answer to Davenants Preface to Gondibert | |
Roger North from Of Building 1690s and Of Unity and Variety | |
Joseph Addison from Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination | |
Batty Langley from Ancient Masonry 1736 | |
Commission for Building Fifty New City Churches from Rules | |
The sense of the past | |
Following the example of Antiquity | |
Inigo Jones from his notes written in his copy of Andrea Palladio | |
or the Compleat Architect 1655 dedication To | |
From The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books 1715 a translation | |
Modern 1664 | |
From Vincenzo Scamozzi The Mirror of Architecture 1676 based | |
Architecture and religion | |
John Donne from his Sermons 1630 and 1625 | |
R T from De Templis 1638 | |
Sir George Wheler from An Account of the Churches 1698 | |
Bibliography | |