Voici rĂ©unis et confrontĂ©s pour la première fois dans une anthologie critique les textes thĂ©oriques d’expression française qui ont dĂ©fini la tradition architecturale ...
Continue Reading →Classical architecture is a visual “language” and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time ...
Continue Reading →Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of ...
Continue Reading →Every era has invented a different idea of the ‘classical’ to create its own identity. Thus the ‘classical’ does not concern only the ...
Continue Reading →Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a ...
Continue Reading →Julian-David Le Roy’s The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758; 2d ed., 1770) forms part of a trilogy of books ...
Continue Reading →Architecture from the fifteenth century to the present has been under the influence of three “fictions.” Notwithstanding the apparent succession of architectural styles, ...
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