The Classical Tradition in Architecture

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

By Richard Wittman

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

Published December 11th 2013 by Routledge

The City Rehearsed

Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

By Christopher Heuer

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

Published November 17th 2013 by Routledge

François Blondel

Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

By Anthony Gerbino

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

The Florentine Villa

Architecture History Society

By Grazia Gobbi Sica

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day....

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History

By Christopher Drew Armstrong

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy. Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

renovatio urbis

Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II

By Nicholas Temple

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each chapter focuses on a particular project, from the Palazzo dei Tribunali to the Stanza della...

Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge

Festival Architecture

By Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from...

Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge

Landscapes of Taste

The Art of Humphry Repton's Red Books

By André Rogger

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

Humphry Repton’s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with Repton’s own watercolours, the notorious Red Book manuscripts were used to suggest improvements to family estates all over...

Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge

The Picturesque

Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

By John Macarthur

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a...

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge

Power and Virtue

Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730

By Shiqiao Li

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas....

Published November 23rd 2006 by Routledge