Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present : 89 Essays on 117 Treatises"Discusses, in 89 concise essays, the most important treatises on architecture from the Renaissance to today. The authors explore the origins of each treatise and examine the motives that have prompted architects over the past 500 years to set down their ideas on paper. Grouped by nation and epoch, the writings of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, John Shute Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi and Rem Koolhaas are just some of those discussed"--Inside front cover. |
Contents
Italy Veronica Biermann Alexander Grönert Christoph Jobst Roswitha Stewering | 20 |
Leon Battista Alberti 22 Antonio Averlino called Filarete 28 Francesco di Giorgio Martini 38 Anonymous 48 | 48 |
Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona 60 Cesare Cesariano 66 Sebastiano Serlio 76 Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola 86 | 86 |
Pietro Cataneo 96 Daniele Barbaro 102 Andrea Palladio 110 Vincenzo Scamozzi 118 Guarino Guarini 128 | 128 |
Andrea Pozzo 138 Domenico de Rossi 148 Giuseppe Galli Bibiena 156 Giovanni Battista Piranesi 164 | 164 |
Bernardo Antonio Vittone 174 Francesco Milizia and Giovanni Battista Cipriani | 184 |
Villard de Honnecourt 194 Jean Martin 202 Philibert de lOrme 212 Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 220 | 220 |
Pierre Le Muet 232 Roland Fréart de Chambray 240 Claude Perrault 248 François Blondel 258 Augustin | 288 |
John Shute 400 Henry Wotton 406 Colen Campbell 412 James Gibbs 422 Robert Morris 430 Isaac Ware 438 | 438 |
William Chambers 446 Augustus Welby Pugin 454 John Ruskin | 462 |
Germany | 470 |
Albrecht Dürer 472 Walther Rivius or Ryff 482 Hans Blum 494 Hans Vredeman de Vries 500 Daniel Speckle 510 | 510 |
Wendel Dietterlin 520 Joseph Furttenbach the Elder 530 Abraham Leuthner von Grundt 540 Nicolaus Goldmann | 634 |
Carl Alexander Heideloff 642 Georg Gottlob Ungewitter | 648 |
20th century Gilbert Lupfer Jürgen Paul Paul Sigel | 658 |
Camillo Sitte 660 Ebenezer Howard 668 Adolf Loos 674 Tony Garnier 680 Bruno Taut 692 Le Corbusier 704 | 704 |
JacquesFrançois Blondel 296 MarcAntoine Laugier 310 MarieJoseph Peyre 312 ClaudeNicolas | 336 |
Spain Barbara Borngässer Klein | 356 |
Diego de Sagredo 358 Juan Bautista Villalpando 366 Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás 378 | 378 |
England | 398 |
HenryRussell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson 714 Walter Gropius 722 Frank Lloyd Wright 732 Paul | 802 |
Rem Koolhaas | 812 |
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