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kobvindex_INT0001439
Format:
xxv, 590 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24.5 x 17 cm.
ISBN:
9781405102582 (pbk.)
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1405102586 (pbk.)
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9781405102575 (cased)
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1405102578 (cased)
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE:
"Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive anthology that brings together the classic essays in the field, the volume chronicles the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper.
Volume 1 of the first overview of architectural thought from antiquity to the present day:
* This volume covers 25 B.C. to 1870
* Collects over 200 classic essays in the field, organized thematically for the student and scholar, covering Classicism, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Gothic
* Includes German, French, and Italian essays appearing in English here for the first time
* Features a general introduction and headnotes to each essay written by a renowned expert on architectural theory."
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE:
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Part I Classicism and the Renaissance
A. The Classical and Medieval Traditions
Introduction
1. Vitruvius from De architectura,Book 1 (c.25 B.C.)
2. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 2 (c.25 B.C.)
3. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 3 (c.25 B.C.)
4. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 4 (c.25 B.C.)
5. Old Testament from I Kings
6. Old Testament from The Book of Ezekiel (c.586 B.C.)
7. New Testament from The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John (c.95 A.D.)
8. Abbot Suger from The Book of Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis (c.1144)
9. William Durandus from Rationale divinorum officiorum (1286)
B. Renaissance and Baroque Ideals
Introduction
10. Antonio di Tuccio Manetti from The Life of Brunelleschi (1480s)
11. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Prologue and Book I (1443-1452)
12. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Book 6
13. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Book 9
14. Il Filarete from Book I of untitled treatise on architecture (1461-3)
15. Il Filarete from Book VIII of untitled treatise on architecture
16. Sebastiano Serlio from Book 3, De antiquita (1540)
17. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from Preface to Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562)
18. Palladio from I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570)
19. Juan Bautista Villalpando from In: Ezekielem Explanationes (1604)
20. Georgio Vasari from Preface to Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568)
21. Georgio Vasari from "Life of Michelangelo" in Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568)
22. Peter Paul Rubens from Preface to Palazzi di Genova (1622)
Part II. Classicism in France and Britain
A. French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns
Introduction
23. René Descartes from Regulae ad Directionen Ingenii (1628)
24. Roland Fréart de Chambray from Preface to Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne (1650)
25. Paul Fréart de Chantelou from Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France (1665)
26. François Blondel from "Discours pronounce par Mr Blondel a l'ouverture de l'Academie d'Architecture" (1671)
27. François Blondel, from Cours d'architecture (1675)
28. René Ouvrard from Architecture harmonique (1677)
29. Claude Perrault, annotations to French translation of Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve (1673)
30. François Blondel from Cours d'architecture, Vol. II (1683)
31. Claude Perrault from Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, second edition (1684)
32. Claude Perrault from Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des Anciens (1683)
33. Jean-François Félibien from Preface to Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus célebres architectes (1687)
34. Charles Perrault from Preface to Parallèle des anciens et des modernes en ce qui regarde les arts et les sciences (1688)
35. Charles Perrault (1688-97) from "Dessin d'un portail pour l'Église de Sainte-Geneviève à Paris" (1697)
36. Michel de Frémin from Mémoires critiques d'architecture (1702)
37. Jean-Louis de Cordemoy from Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture (1706, 1714)
B. British Classicism and Palladianism
Introduction
38. Henry Wotton from The Elements of Architecture (1624)
39. Christopher Wren from Tract I on architecture (mid-1670s)
40. Christopher Wren from Tracts II and IV on architecture (mid-1670s)
41. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
42. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from "A Letter Concerning Design" (1712)
43. Colin Campbell, Introduction to Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. I (1715)
44. Nicholas Du Bois, Translator's Preface to The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715)
45. William Kent, "Advertisement"to The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727)
46. James Gibbs, Introduction to A Book of Architecture (1728)
47. Robert Morris from An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture (1728)
48. Alexander Pope from Of False Taste (1731)
49. Isaac Ware, "Advertisement" to Andrea Palladio: The Four Books of Architecture (1737)
50. Robert Morris from "An Essay upon Harmony" (1739)
Part III Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment
A. Early Neoclassicism
Introduction
51. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach from Preface to Entwurf einer historischen Architektur (1721)
52. Voltaire from Lettres philosophiques sur les anglais (1733)
53. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot from "Mémoire sur les proportions de l'architecture" (1739)
54. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot from "Mémoire sur l'architecture gothique" (1741)
55. Carlo Lodoli from Notes for a projected treatise on architecture (c.1740s)
56. Baron de Montesquieu from Preface to L'Esprit des Lois (1748)
57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750)
58. Jean Le Rond D'Alembert from "Discours préliminaire des editeurs" (1751)
59. Jacques-François Blondel from "Architecture" in Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751)
60. Charles-Étienne Briseau from Preface to Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts (1752)
61. Marc-Antoine Laugier from Essai sur l'architecture (1753)
62. Marc-Antoine Laugier from Essai sur l'architecture (1753)
63. Isaac Ware from A Complete Body of Architecture, Chapter II (1756)
64. Isaac Ware from A Complete Body of Architecture, Chapter IX (1756)
65. William Chambers from A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759)
66. William Chambers from A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture (1791)
B. Greece and the Classical Ideal
Introduction
67. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett from "Proposals for publishing an accurate description of the Antiquities of Athens" (1748)
68. Robert Wood and James Dawkins from The Ruins of Palmyra (1753)
69. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755)
70. Allan Ramsay from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755)
71. Julien-David Leroy from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758)
72. Julien-David Leroy from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758)
73. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett from the Preface to The Antiquities of Athens (1762)
74. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764)
75. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764)
76. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764)
77. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from Osservazioni sopra la letter de Monsieur Mariette (1765)
78. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from Parere su l'architettura (1765)
79. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from "An Apologetical Essay in Defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan Architecture" (1769)
C. Character and Expression
Introduction
80. Germain Boffrand from Livre d'architecture (1745)
81. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac from Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746)
82. Julien-David Leroy from Histoire de la disposition et des formes differentes que les chréstiens ont données à leur temples (1764)
83. Jacques-François Blondel from Cours d'architecture (1771)
84. Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières from Le génie de l'architecture (1780)
85. Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières from Le génie de l'architecture (1780)
86. Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux from Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens et celles des modernes (1787)
87. A. C. Quatremère de Quincy from Encyclopédie méthodique (1788)
88. Étienne-Louis Boullée from Architecture, essai sur l'art (c.1794)
89. Étienne-Louis Boullée from Architecture, Essai sur l'art (c.1794)
90. Claude Nicolas Ledoux from L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation (1804)
91. John Soane from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture (V and XI; 1812-15
Part IV Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime
A. Sources of the Picturesque
Introduction
92. John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
93. William Temple from "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening in the Year 1685" (1692
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English
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