Architectural theory : from the Renaissance to the present : 89 essays on 117 treatises / with a preface by Bernd Evers and an introduction by Christof Thoenes ; in cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin ; [English translation, Gregory Fauria, Jeremy Gaines, Michael Shuttleworth].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evers, Bernd, 1941-

Thoenes, Christof

Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany)

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architecture--Historiography.

Physical Description:

845 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Köln ; Los Angeles : Taschen, [2003]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Italy / Veronica Biermann, Alexander Gronert, Christoph Jobst, Roswitha Stewering 20

Leon Battista Alberti 22

Antonio Averlino, called Filarete 28

Francesco di Giorgio Martini 38

Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona 60

Cesare Cesariano 66

Sebastiano Serlio 76

Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola 86

Pietro Cataneo 96

Daniele Barbaro 102

Andrea Palladio 110

Vincenzo Scamozzi 118

Guarino Guarini 128

Andrea Pozzo 138

Domenico de' Rossi 148

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena 156

Giovanni Battista Piranesi 164

Bernardo Antonio Vittone 174

Francesco Milizia and Giovanni Battista Cipriani 184

France / Christian Freigang, Jarl Kremeier 192

Villard de Honnecourt 194

Jean Martin 202

Philibert de l'Orme 212

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 220

Pierre Le Muet 232

Roland Freart de Chambray 240

Claude Perrault 248

Francois Blondel 258

Augustin Charles D'Aviler 264

Jean-Louis de Cordemoy 274

Charles-Etienne Briseux 278

Germain Boffrand 288

Jacques-Francois Blondel 296

Marc-Antoine Laugier 310

Marie-Joseph Peyre 312

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 318

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand 328

Jean-Baptiste Rondelet and Guillaume Abel Blouet 336

Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 344

Spain / Barbara Borngasser Klein 356

Diego de Sagredo 358

Juan Bautista Villalpando 366

Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolas 378

Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz 386

England / Carsten Ruhl 398

John Shute 400

Henry Wotton 406

Colen Campbell 412

James Gibbs 422

Robert Morris 430

Isaac Ware 438

William Chambers 446

Augustus Welby Pugin 454

John Ruskin 462

Germany / Bernd Evers, Jurgen Zimmer 470

Albrecht Durer 472

Walther Rivius or Ryff 482

Hans Blum 494

Hans Vredeman de Vries 500

Daniel Speckle 510

Wendel Dietterlin 520

Joseph Furttenbach the Elder 530

Abraham Leuthner von Grundt 540

Nicolaus Goldmann and Leonhard Christoph Sturm 550

Paulus Decker 560

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 574

Friedrich Weinbrenner 586

Karl Friedrich Schinkel 594

Leo von Klenze 604

Christian Carl Josias Bunsen, Johann Gottfried Gutensohn, Johann Michael Knapp 612

Heinrich Hubsch 622

Gottfried Semper 626

Friedrich Hoffstadt 634

Carl Alexander Heideloff 642

Georg Gottlob Ungewitter 648

20th century / Gilbert Lupfer, Jurgen Paul, Paul Sigel 658

Camillo Sitte 660

Ebenezer Howard 668

Adolf Loos 674

Tony Garnier 680

Bruno Taut 692

Le Corbusier 704

Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson 714

Walter Gropius 722

Frank Lloyd Wright 732

Paul Schmitthenner 742

Sigfried Giedion 752

Council of Ministers of the GDR 764

Archigram 770

Kisho Kurokawa 776

Aldo Rossi 782

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour 790

Charles A. Jencks 802

Rem Koolhaas 812.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 826-833) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

382281699X

OCLC:

52470778