For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range ...
Continue Reading →‘Building in Words’ deals with the process of construction in Roman imperial literature from Vergil to the second century AD. The first part ...
Continue Reading →A physician, physicist, Cartesian, and “Modern” in the famous querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Claude Perrault acquired architectural immortality with his design ...
Continue Reading →As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
Continue Reading →The institution of the pantheon has come a long way from its classical origins. Invented to describe a temple dedicated to many deities, ...
Continue Reading →Vitruvius, as he himself lamented, was not a success professionally nor was he a talented writer, yet his De architectura , written for ...
Continue Reading →Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to ...
Continue Reading →Thesis (Ph. D.)–Columbia University, 1934 Submitted in compliance of Mr. Bardbury’s Ph.D. The thesis is centered on the Vitruvian School of Architecture in ...
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