| | Classicism and the Renaissance |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Classicism and the Renaissance |
| | Classicism in France and Britain |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Classicism in France and Britain |
| | Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment |
| | Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime |
| | The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century |
| | Historicism in the Industrial Age |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Historicism in the Industrial Age |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Classicism and the Renaissance |
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| | The Classical and Medieval Traditions |
| | Vitruvius from De architectura (c.25 B.C.) |
| | from The Book of Ezekiel (c.586 B.C.) |
| | New Testament from The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John (c.95 A.D.) |
| | Abbot Suger from The Book of Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis (c.1144) |
| | William Durandus from Rationale divinorum officiorum (1286) |
| | Renaissance and Baroque Ideals |
| | Antonio di Tuccio Manetti from The Life of Brunelleschi (1480s) |
| | Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria(1443-1452) |
| | Il Filarete from Book of untitled treatise on architecture (1461-3) |
| | Sebastiano Serlio from Book 3, De antiquita (1540) |
| | Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from Preface to Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562) |
| | Palladio from I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570) |
| | Juan Bautista Villalpando from In: Ezekielem Explanationes (1604) |
| | from Preface to Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568) |
| | from "Life of Michelangelo" in Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568) |
| | Peter Paul Rubens from Preface to Palazzi di Genova (1622) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Historicism in the Industrial Age |
| | >>Link: Page-1\Architectural Theory\Historicism in the Industrial Age |
| | Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Realism in France |
| | Albert Lenoir and Leon Vaudoyer from "Etudes d'architecture en France"(1844) |
| | from "De la liberte dans l'art" (1847) |
| | from Revue generale (1863-6) |
| | Leonce Reynaud from Traite d'architecture (1850) |
| | Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc |
| | from "De la construction des edifices religieux en France" (1845) |
| | from "Architecture," in Dictionnaire raisonne (1854) |
| | from Entretiens sur l'architecture (1859-66) |
| | from "Style" in Dictionnaire raisonne (1866) |
| | Gustave Courbet from "Statement on Realism" (1855) |
| | Charles Baudelaire from "The Painter of Modern Life" (1859) |
| | Bourgeois de Lagny from "Salon de 1866" |
| | Emile Zola from Le ventre de Paris (1872) |
| | The Battle of the Styles in Britain |
| | >>Link: The Battle of the Styles in Britain\The Battle of the Styles in Britain |
| | Tectonics and Style in Germany |
| | >>Link: Tectonics and Style in Germany\Tectonics and Style in Germany |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century |
| | >>Link: Page-1\Architectural Theory\The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century |
| | Challenges to Classicism in France, 1802-34 |
| | Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand from Precis de lecons d'architecture donnees a l'Ecole Royale Polytechnique (1802) |
| | A. C. Quatremere de Quincy |
| | from De l'architecture egyptienne (1803) |
| | from Le Jupiter olympien (1814) |
| | Christian Ludwig Stieglitz from Archaologie der Baukunst der Griechen und Romer (1801) |
| | Charles Robert Cockerell from "On the Aegina Marbles" (1819) |
| | William Kinnard, Annotations to Stuart and Revett's The Antiquities of Athens, second edition (1825) |
| | Otto Magnus von Stackelberg from Der Apollotempel zu Bassae in Arcadien (1826) |
| | Jacques Ignace Hittorff from "De l'architecture polychrome chez les Grecs" (1830) |
| | Gottfried Semper from Vorlaufige Bemerkungen uber bemalte Architectur und Plastik bei den Alten (1834) |
| | Leon Vaudoyer, Excerpts from three letters of 1829, 1830, and 1831 |
| | Emile Barrault from Aux Artistes (1830) |
| | Victor Hugo from Notre-Dame de Paris (1832) |
| | Gottfried Semper from Vorlaufige Bemerkungen uber bemalte Architectur und Plastik bei den Alten (1834) |
| | Leonce Reynaud from "Architecture" in Encyclopedie nouvelle (1834) |
| | The Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, and France |
| | >>Link: The Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, and France\The Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, and France |
| | >>Link: The German Style Debate\The German Style Debate |
| | The Rise of American Theory |
| | >>Link: The Rise of American Theory\The Rise of American Theory |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime |
| | >>Link: Page-1\Architectural Theory\Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime |
| | Sources of the Picturesque |
| | John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) |
| | William Temple from "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening in the Year 1685" (1692) |
| | John Vanbrugh Letter to the Duchess of Marlborough (1709) |
| | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from "The Moralists" (1709) |
| | Joseph Addison from The Spectator (1712) |
| | Robert Castell from The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (1728) |
| | Batty Langley from New Principles of Gardening (1728) |
| | Robert Morris from Lectures on Architecture (1734-1736) |
| | William Chambers from Designs of Chinese Buildings (1757) |
| | Toward a Relativist Aesthetics |
| | >>Link: Toward a Relativist Aesthetics\Toward a Relativist Aesthetics |
| | Consolidation of Picturesque Theory |
| | >>Link: Consolidation of Picturesque Theory\Consolidation of Picturesque Theory |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment |
| | >>Link: Page-1\Architectural Theory\Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment |
| | >>Link: Early Neoclassicism\Early Neoclassicism |
| | Greece and the Classical Ideal |
| | >>Link: Greece and the Classical Ideal\Greece and the Classical Ideal |
| | Germain Boffrand from Livre d'architecture (1745) |
| | Etienne Bonnot de Condillac from Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) |
| | Julien-David Leroy from Histoire de la disposition et des formes differentes que les chrestiens ont donnees a leur temples (1764) |
| | Jacques-Francois Blondel from Cours d'architecture (1771) |
| | Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres from Le genie de l'architecture (1780) |
| | Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux from Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens et celles des modernes (1787) |
| | A. C. Quatremere de Quincy from Encyclopedie methodique (1788) |
| | Etienne-Louis Boullee from Architecture, Essai sur l'art (c.1794) |
| | Claude Nicolas Ledoux from L'architecture consideree sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la legislation (1804) |
| | John Soane from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture (V and XI; 1812-15) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Classicism in France and Britain |
| | >>Link: Page-1\Architectural Theory\Classicism in France and Britain |
| | French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns |
| | >>Link: French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns\French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns |
| | Roland Freart de Chambray |
| | British Classicism and Palladianism |
| | >>Link: British Classicism and Palladianism\British Classicism and Palladianism |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Classicism in France and Britain\French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns |
| | Rene Descartes from Regulae ad Directionen Ingenii (1628) |
| | Roland Freart de Chambray from Preface to Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne (1650) |
| | Paul Freart de Chantelou from Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France (1665) |
| | from "Discours pronounce par Mr Blondel a l'ouverture de l'Academie d'Architecture" (1671) |
| | from Cours d'architecture (1675) |
| | Rene Ouvrard from Architecture harmonique (1677) |
| | Claude Perrault annotations to French translation of Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve (1673) |
| | Francois Blondel from Cours d'architecture, Vol. II (1683) |
| | from Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, second edition (1684) |
| | from Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes selon la methode des Anciens (1683) |
| | Jean-Francois Felibien from Preface to Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus celebres architectes (1687) |
| | from Preface to Parallele des anciens et des modernes en ce qui regarde les arts et les sciences (1688) |
| | from "Dessin d'un portail pour l'Eglise de Sainte-Genevieve a Paris" (1697) |
| | Michel de Fremin from Memoires critiques d'architecture (1702) |
| | Jean-Louis de Cordemoy from Nouveau traite de toute l'architecture (1706, 1714) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | British Classicism and Palladianism |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Classicism in France and Britain\British Classicism and Palladianism |
| | Henry Wotton from The Elements of Architecture (1624) |
| | Christopher Wren from Tract on architecture (mid-1670s) |
| | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury |
| | from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) |
| | from "A Letter Concerning Design" (1712) |
| | Colin Campbell, Introduction to Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. I (1715) |
| | Nicholas Du Bois, Translator's Preface to The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715) |
| | William Kent, "Advertisement"to The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727) |
| | James Gibbs, Introduction to A Book of Architecture (1728) |
| | Robert Morris from An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture (1728) |
| | Alexander Pope from Of False Taste (1731) |
| | Isaac Ware, "Advertisement" to Andrea Palladio: The Four Books of Architecture (1737) |
| | Robert Morris from "An Essay upon Harmony" (1739) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment\Early Neoclassicism |
| | Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach from Preface to Entwurf einer historischen Architektur (1721) |
| | Voltaire from Lettres philosophiques sur les anglais (1733) |
| | from "Memoire sur les proportions de l'architecture" (1739) |
| | from "Memoire sur l'architecture gothique" (1741) |
| | Carlo Lodoli from Notes for a projected treatise on architecture (c.1740s) |
| | Baron de Montesquieu from Preface to L'Esprit des Lois (1748) |
| | Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750) |
| | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert from "Discours preliminaire des editeurs" (1751) |
| | Jacques-Francois Blondel from "Architecture" in Diderot's Encyclopedie (1751) |
| | Charles-Etienne Briseau from Preface to Traite du beau essentiel dans les arts (1752) |
| | Marc-Antoine Laugier from Essai sur l'architecture (1753) |
| | Isaac Ware from A Complete Body of Architecture (1756) |
| | William Chambers from A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Greece and the Classical Ideal |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment\Greece and the Classical Ideal |
| | James Stuart and Nicholas Revett From "Proposals for publishing an accurate description of the Antiquities of Athens" (1748) |
| | Robert Wood and James Dawkins from The Ruins of Palmyra (1753) |
| | Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Gedanken uber die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755) |
| | Allan Ramsay from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755) |
| | Julien-David Leroy from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758) |
| | James Stuart and Nicholas Revett from the Preface to The Antiquities of Athens (1762) |
| | Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764) |
| | Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
| | from Osservazioni sopra la letter de Monsieur Mariette (1765) |
| | from Parere su l'architettura (1765) |
| | from "An Apologetical Essay in Defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan Architecture" (1769) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Toward a Relativist Aesthetics |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime\Toward a Relativist Aesthetics |
| | John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, fourth edition (1700) |
| | Joseph Addison from the Spectator (1712) |
| | Jean Baptiste du Bos from Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music (1719) |
| | Francis Hutcheson from An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) |
| | George Berkeley from the "Third Dialogue" of Alciphron (1732) |
| | David Hume from A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) |
| | Allan Ramsey from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755) |
| | Alexander Gerard from An Essay on Taste (1756) |
| | David Hume from "Of the Standard of Taste" (1757) |
| | Edmund Burke from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) |
| | Lord Kames from Elements of Criticism (1762) |
| | Robert and James Adam from Preface to The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (1773-78) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Consolidation of Picturesque Theory |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime\Consolidation of Picturesque Theory |
| | Thomas Whately from Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) |
| | Horace Walpole from "The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening" (1771) |
| | William Chambers from A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772) |
| | William Gilpin from Observations on the River Wye (1782) |
| | Joshua Reynolds from Discourses on Architecture (1786) |
| | John Soane from Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings (1788) |
| | Uvedale Price from Essays on the Picturesque (1794) |
| | Richard Payne Knight from "Postscript" to The Landscape, second edition (1795) |
| | Humphry Repton from Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795) |
| | Uvedale Price from "An Essay on Architecture and Buildings as connected with Scenery" (1798) |
| | Richard Payne Knight from An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805) |
| | John Soane from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture, V, VIII, and XI (1812-15) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | The Rise of American Theory |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century\The Rise of American Theory |
| | from Letter to Washington Allston (1831) |
| | from "American Architecture (1843) |
| | James Jackson Jarves from The Art-Idea (1864) |
| | from Cottage Residences (1842) |
| | from The Architecture of Country Houses (1850) |
| | from Hints to Persons about Building in the Country (1847) |
| | from A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening |
| | Benjamin Latrobe Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1807) |
| | Henry David Thoreau from his journal (January 11, 1852) |
| | William Strickland from introductory lecture on architecture (1824) |
| | Arthur Delavan Gilman from "Architecture in the United States" (1843) |
| | from "Self-Reliance" (1841) |
| | from "Thoughts on Art" (1841) |
| | Thomas Alexander Tefft from "The Cultivation of True Taste" (1851) |
| | Horatio Greenough from "Structure and Organization" (1852) |
| | George Tucker from "On Architecture" (1814) |
| | Thomas Jefferson Letters (1787, 1791, 1805, 1812) |
| | Thomas U. Walter from "Of Modern Architecture" (1841) |
| | Calvert Vaux from Villas and Cottages (1857) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century\The German Style Debate |
| | Immanuel Kant from Kritik der Urtheilskraft (1790) |
| | August Schlegel from Vorlesungen uber schone Litteratur und Kunst (1801-02) |
| | >>Note: from "Einige Gedanken uber die Notwendigkeit, die verschiedenen Theile der Baukunst... zu vereinen" (1799) |
| | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel from The Philosophy of Fine Art (1820s) |
| | Friedrich von Gartner from Letter to Johann Martin von Wagner (1828) |
| | Heinrich Hubsch from Im welchem Style sollen wir bauen? (1828) |
| | Literary fragments (c. 1805) |
| | from Notes for a textbook on architecture (c.1830) |
| | from Notes for a textbook on architecture (c.1835) |
| | from "Bemerkungen uber die Schrift: Im welchem Style sollen wir bauen?" (1829) |
| | from "Gedanken uber Entwickelung eines zeitgemassen nazionalen Baustyls" (1841) |
| | >>Note: from "Einige Worte uber die von Herrn Professor Stier bei der Architektenversammlung zu Bamberg zur Sprache gebrachten . . . architektonischen Fragen" (1845) |
| | Eduard Metzger from "Beitrag zur Zeitfrage: In welchem Stil man bauen soll!" (1845) |
| | Carl Botticher from "Das Prinzip der hellenischen und germanischen Bauweise" (1846) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | The Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, and France |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century\The Gothic Revival in Britain, Germany, and France |
| | from Letter to H. Zouch (1759) |
| | from A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill (1774) |
| | Johann Wolfgang Goethe from "Von deutscher Baukunst" (1772) |
| | Francois Rene Chateaubriand from Le genie du christianisme (1802) |
| | Friedrich von Schlegel from Briefen auf einer Reise durch die Niederlande, Rheingegenden, die Schweiz und einen Teil von Frankreich (1806) |
| | Joseph Gorres from "Der Dom in Koln" (1814) |
| | Georg Moller from Denkmahler der detuschen Baukunst (1815-1821) |
| | Thomas Rickman from An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture (1817) |
| | William Whewell from Architectural Notes on German Churches (1830) |
| | Robert Willis from Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages (1835) |
| | from The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1842) |
| | John Mason Neale and Benjamin Webb from The Ecclesiologist (1841) |
| | Victor Hugo from Notre-Dame de Paris (1832) |
| | Leonce Reynaud from "Architecture," Encyclopedie nouvelle (1834) |
| | Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc from "De la construction des edifices religieux en France" (1844) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | Tectonics and Style in Germany |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Historicism in the Industrial Age\Tectonics and Style in Germany |
| | Karl von Schnaase from Niederlandische Briefe (1834) |
| | Karl Botticher from Die Tektonik der Hellenen (1843) |
| | Eduard van der Null from "Andeutungen uber die kunstgemasse Beziehung des Ornamentes zur rohen Form" (1845) |
| | Heinrich Leibnitz from Die struktive Element in der Architektur (1849) |
| | from Die Vier Elemente der Baukunst (1851) |
| | from Wissenschaft, Industrie und Kunst (1852) |
| | from Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860) |
| | from Die Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien (1867) |
| | from Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Kunsten (1860) |
| | from Uber Baustyle (1869) |
| | Rudolf Hermann Lotze from Geschichte der Aesthetik in Deutschland (1868) |
| | Richard Lucae from "Uber die Bedeutung und Macht des Raumes in der Baukunst" (1869) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
| | The Battle of the Styles in Britain |
| | >>Link: Classicism and the Renaissance\Historicism in the Industrial Age\The Battle of the Styles in Britain |
| | from Observations on the Plans and Elevations Designed by James Wyatt (1804) |
| | from An Historical Essay on Architecture (1835) |
| | from "Preliminary Discourse before the University College of London" (1842) |
| | from The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) |
| | from "The Nature of Gothic" (1851-3) |
| | from "The Deteriorative Power of Conventional Art over Nations" (1859) |
| | James Fergusson from History of the Modern Styles of Architecture (1862) |
| | Augustus Welby Pugin, Edward Lacy Garbett, Robert Kerr from The Builder (1850) |
| | Owen Jones from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) |
| | Edward Lacy Garbett from Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture (1850) |
| | Matthew Digby Wyatt from The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1851) |
| | Richard Redgrave from "Supplementary Report on Design" (1852) |
| | Robert Kerr, "The Battle of the Styles," from The Builder (1860) |
| | William Morris, Prospectus for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company (1861) |
| | Architectural Theory. Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave |
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