The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

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Psychology Press, 2004 - 533 pages
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

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Anonymous Liber Historiarum Romanorum Twelfth century
5
Anonymous Plan of St Gallen Beginning ninth century
12
late tenth century Leo of Naples Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle Alexander
29
Robert of Clari The Conquest of Constantinople
38
April 26 1342 Francesco Petrarch The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
46
composed
63
Antonio Averlino known as Filarete Trattato di architettura 14511464
76
completed Generally attributed to Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia
80
Claude Perrault Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes 1683
250
written Sir William Temple The Gardens of Epicurus
251
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon The Adventures
257
Abbé JeanLouis de Cordemoy Extract from a Letter by the Author
265
Joseph Addison The Spectator
273
Stephan Switzer A Forest or Rural Gardens Ichnographia 1718
276
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Outline of a Historical
280
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Entwurf einer historischen Architecktur 1721
285

Giorgio Martini Trattati sullarchitettura civile e militare 14741482 8788
87
Cesare Cesariano Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione de Architectura Libri Dece 1521 98101
98
Albrecht Dürer Etliche Unterricht zu Befestigung der Statt Schloss und Flecken 1527
104
Sebastiano Serlio I Libri dellarchitettura 15371575
114
Cataneo Senese I Quattro primi libri di architettura 1554
123
Philibert de lOrme New Inventions for Building Economically
131
Philibert de lOrme Nouvelles Inventions pour bien bâtir à petits frais 1561 135137
136
Philibert de lOrme Le Premier tôme de larchitecture 15671648
148
Andrea Palladio I Quattro libri dellarchitettura 1570 155156
155
Antonio Rusconi DellArchitettura 1590
160
Jaques Perret Des Fortifications et artifices architecture et perspective 1601
166
Teofilo Gallaccini Sopra gli errorri degli architetti 1767 written 1621
174
Galileo Galilei Discorsi intorno a due nuove scienze 1638
187
viii Church of Salisbury
197
published J D Cassini
198
Jean Le Paultre Recueil Général du Chasteau de Versailles 1677
202
Claude Perrault The Ten Books of Vitruvius Corrected and Translated
204
Claude Perrault Les Dix livres darchitecture de Vitruve corrigés et traduits 1673
209
François Blondel Lessons of Architecture
211
Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz Civil Architecture Orthogonal
219
Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz Architectura Civil recta y obliqua 1678 223225
223
written Guarino Guarini Civil Architecture
226
Guarino Guarini Architectura Civil 1678 230231
230
Sébastien le Prêtre seigneur de Vauban Letter to Louvois 232 Contents
232
Antoine Desgodetz Les Edifices antiques de Rome 1682
239
Claude Perrault The Ordonnance of the Five Species of Columns
240
Jean Courtonne Treatise on Perspective with Some Remarks
290
Robert Castell Plan of Tusculanum The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated 1728
295
Batty Langley New Principles of Gardening
298
John Searle Plan of Popes garden 1745
303
Robert Morris Lectures on Architecture
307
CharlesEtienne Briseux Lart de bâtir les maisons de campagne 17431761
315
Giovanni Poleni Memorie istoriche della gran cupola del Tempio Vaticano e de danni di essa
329
Marc Antoine Laugier Essai sur larchitecture 1753
338
Sir William Chambers Designs for Chinese Buildings 1757
349
Contents Sublime and Beautiful
357
Julien David Le Roy Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce 1758
361
Robert Adam Ruins of the Palace at Spalatro 1764
371
Pierre Patte Mémoires sur les objets les plus importants de larchitecture 1769
382
Jacques François Blondel Cours dArchitecture 1771
395
Francesco Milizia Principles of Civil Architecture
428
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432
composed AntoineChrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy On Egyptian
436
Nicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet Report on Hospitals
442
Jeremy Bentham Panopticon or the Inspection House
454
James Malton An Essay on British Cottage Architecture 467 Contents
470
Richard Elsam Essay on Rural Architecture
476
ClaudeNicolas Ledoux Concerning Architecture Seen From the Point
488
CharlesFrançois Viel On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure
496
Bibliography and references
502
Index
526
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