The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis 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. |
Contents
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 |
II441149 Abbot Suger On Matters of Administration | 35 |
late thirteenth Marco Polo Rustichello of Pisa and others The Travels of Marco | 42 |
composed | 63 |
Antonio Averlino known as Filarete Trattato di architettura 14511464 | 76 |
completed Generally attributed to Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia | 80 |
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 |
Jean Courtonne Treatise on Perspective with Some Remarks | 290 |
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 114122 | 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 148150 | 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 |
Federigo Zuccaro The Idea of Painters Sculptors and Architects | 168 |
Teofilo Gallaccini Sopra gli errorri degli architetti 1767 written 1621 | 174 |
Ben Jonson Neptunes Triumph | 175 |
René Descartes Discourse on Method | 182 |
Galileo Galilei Discorsi intorno a due nuove scienze 1638 | 187 |
Roland Fréart de Chambray Parallel of Antique and Modern | 189 |
Sir Christopher Wren Surveyors Report on the Condition of St Pauls | 196 |
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 |
Claude Perrault Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes 1683 | 250 |
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 |
Alexander Gérard An Essay on Taste | 363 |
Robert Adam Ruins of the Palace at Spalatro 1764 | 371 |
MarcAntoine Laugier Observations on Architecture | 372 |
Pierre Patte Mémoires sur les objets les plus importants de larchitecture 1769 | 382 |
Charles Nicolas Cochin Letter from an Architectural Engraver to Monsieur | 385 |
Jacques François Blondel Cours dArchitecture 1771 | 395 |
Sir James Steuart Critical Observations on the Buildings | 396 |
ClaudeHenri Watelet Essay on Gardens | 403 |
JacquesFrançois Blondel Lessons on Architecture continued | 410 |
Francesco Milizia Principles of Civil Architecture | 428 |
xiii | 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 |
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