Vitruvius Britannicus

Author : Colen Campbell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1017277648

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Vitruvius Britannicus, Or, The British Architect: Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, Both Publick and Private, i by Colen Campbell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Colen Campbell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486139456

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Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell Pdf

A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio for inspiration. These Neo-Palladians guided the course of British architecture toward classical principles, and the Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision. A sumptuous collection of magnificent copperplate engravings, it depicts great English country houses and public buildings. Published between 1715 and 1725 in a three-folio set, the Vitruvius Britannicus documents in meticulous detail many of the buildings from the previous two centuries. Its 300 illustrations include facades, ground plans, exterior elevations, and perspective views. Featured buildings include those designed by Inigo Jones, the seventeenth-century architect who introduced Palladianism to England; the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, whose innovative Classical-Revival architecture retained a Baroque flair; and contemporary designs, including those of the author, Scottish architect Colen Campbell. The popularity of this volume fostered the development of the Neo-Palladian movement, and Vitruvius Britannicus continues to influence architects and designers. Handsome and modestly priced, this new edition is an essential complement to any design library.

Author : Colen Campbell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486447995

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Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell Pdf

A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio for inspiration. These Neo-Palladians guided the course of British architecture toward classical principles, and the Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision. A sumptuous collection of magnificent copperplate engravings, it depicts great English country houses and public buildings. Published between 1715 and 1725 in a three-folio set, the Vitruvius Britannicus documents in meticulous detail many of the buildings from the previous two centuries. Its 300 illustrations include facades, ground plans, exterior elevations, and perspective views. Featured buildings include those designed by Inigo Jones, the seventeenth-century architect who introduced Palladianism to England; the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, whose innovative Classical-Revival architecture retained a Baroque flair; and contemporary designs, including those of the author, Scottish architect Colen Campbell. The popularity of this volume fostered the development of the Neo-Palladian movement, and Vitruvius Britannicus continues to influence architects and designers. Handsome and modestly priced, this new edition is an essential complement to any design library.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433081674768

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The Gentleman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980108

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History of Architectural Theory by Hanno-Walter Kruft Pdf

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 382281699X

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Architectural Theory by Anonim Pdf

This book charls the fascinating history of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present day. Addressing its subject country by country and featuring over 850 illustrations, it offers a chronological overview of the most important architects and architectural theoreticians from Alberti to Koolhaas. Book jacket.

Author : Colen Campbell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1017865132

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Vitruvius Britannicus, Or, The British Architect: Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, Both Publick and Private, i by Colen Campbell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Daniel D. Reiff
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0271044195

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Houses from Books by Daniel D. Reiff Pdf

Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces the history of published plans and offers the first comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from 1738 to 1950. Houses from Books shows that architectural publications, from Palladio&’s I Quattro Libri to Aladdin's Readi-Cut Homes, played a decisive role in every aspect of American domestic building. Reiff discusses the people and the firms who produced the books as well as the ways in which builders and architects adapted the designs in communities throughout the country. His book also offers a wide-ranging analysis of the economic and social conditions shaping American building practices. As architectural publication developed and grew more sophisticated, it played an increasingly prominent part in the design and the construction of domestic buildings. In villages and small towns, which often did not have professional architects, the publications became basic resources for carpenters and builders at all levels of expertise. Through the use of published designs, they were able to choose among a variety of plans, styles, and individual motifs and engage in a fruitful dialogue with past and present architects. Houses from Books reconstructs this dialogue by examining the links between the published designs and the houses themselves. Reiff&’s book will be indispensable to architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and regional historians. Realtors and homeowners will also find it of great interest. A catalog at the end of the book can function as a guide for those attempting to locate a model and a date for a particular design. Houses from Books contains a wealth of photographs, many by the author, that enhance its importance as a history and guide.

Author : William John Loftie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Architects
ISBN : YALE:39002088672663

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Inigo Jones and Wren by William John Loftie Pdf

Author : Toby Barnard,Jane Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1852850949

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Lord Burlington by Toby Barnard,Jane Clark Pdf

Despite Burlington's fame, surprisingly little has been written about him. Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life presents a modern reassessment of his career, while setting him in a broader context than has usually been the case, to reflect both his interests outside architecture and to present his character in the round. Architecture is given pride of place, but his other interests, in land-owning, politics and literature, are also examined, throwing much new light on an exceptionally significant and attractive figure.

Author : John Summerson,John Newenham Summerson, Sir
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300058861

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Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 by John Summerson,John Newenham Summerson, Sir Pdf

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.

Author : Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228014973

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Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 by Joan Coutu,Jon Stobart,Peter N. Lindfield Pdf

Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.

Author : Clare Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351913577

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Ordering Law by Clare Graham Pdf

Over the last thirty years, historical studies of building types have become something of a growth area. As well as such general surveys as Nikolaus Pevsner's History of Building Types, there are growing numbers of studies of individual types, of which the most distinguished perhaps remain Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House and Robin Evan's study of prisons, The Fabrication of Virtue. This growth is not surprising, because the subject lends itself to the 'New Art History', and to our increasing desire to set buildings within their social and cultural contexts, as well as their stylistic and cultural ones. This book by Dr Graham is a comprehensive study of a type of building - the law court - which has, to date, remained largely unexplored. Ordering Law establishes when, why and how the trial came to be housed in purpose-built accommodation in England, and what was architecturally distinctive about that accommodation in the period leading up to 1914. The main text concentrates on examining in depth a series of well-documented individual buildings and groups of buildings, using a wide range of contemporary sources to illuminate the way in which they were designed and used. Other information gleaned about court buildings nationwide is placed in an appendix, in gazetteer form; originally drawn from the 200 or so examples listed in the Buildings of England guides, this has expanded to include over 800 entries. As a piece of scholarly research, this work draws on several disciplines and will be of interest to those studying social and legal history, as well as those with a broader interest in architectural history.

Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134532315

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Reading Architectural History by Dana Arnold Pdf

Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history and how should we read it? Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain. Discursive essays consider a range of writings from biographical and social histories to visual surveys and guidebooks to examine the narrative structures of histories of architecture and their impact on perception adn understanding of the architecture of the past. Alongside this, each chapter cites canonical histories juxtaposed with a range of social and cultural theorists, to reveal that these writings are richer than we have perhaps recognised and that architectural production in this period can in interrogated in the same way as that from more recent past - and can be read in a variety of ways. The essays and texts combine to form an essential course reader for methods and critical approached to architectural history, and more generally as examples of the kind of evidence used in the formation of architectural histories, while also offering a thematic introduction to architecture in Britain and its social and cultural meaning.

Author : J. Badeslade,J. Rocque,John Woolfe,James Gandon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486141268

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Vitruvius Britannicus by J. Badeslade,J. Rocque,John Woolfe,James Gandon Pdf

This magnificent volume comprises three folios, originally published between 1739 and 1771. More than 100 plates depict facades, ground plans, exterior elevations, and perspective views of grand Neo-Palladian buildings.