Book Series
The Classical Tradition in Architecture
New & Published Titles:
The City Rehearsed
Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43306-8 (Routledge)
The Florentine Villa
Architecture History Society
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44397-5 (Routledge)
Festival Architecture
With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70129-7 (Routledge)
Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France
This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77463-5 (Routledge)
Landscapes of Taste
The Art of Humphry Repton's Red Books
Humphry Repton’s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41503-3 (Routledge)
The Picturesque
Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84472-011-8 (Routledge)
Power and Virtue
Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730
This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37427-9 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Classical architecture not only provided a repertoire of forms and building types capable of endless transformation; it was also a cultural actor and provided cultural capital, and was used to create political and religious identities. This series provides a forum for its interdisciplinary study, from antiquity to the present day. It aims to publish first-class and groundbreaking scholarship that re-examines, reinterprets or revalues the classical tradition in the widest sense. The series will deal with classicism as a cultural phenomenon, a formal language of design, but also with its role in establishing the agenda, method and grammar of inquiry in Western history of art and architecture and recent reconsiderations of these roles.