1st Edition
British Architectural Theory 1540-1750 An Anthology of Texts
Edited By Caroline van Eck
Copyright 2003
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
This book 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... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 The nature of architecture, 2 Building, 3 Architecture and religion, 4 The sense of the past, 5 Following the example of Antiquity, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Caroline van Eck
