Main entry:

Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915.

Title & Author:

The American Vignola : a guide to the making of classical architecture / William R. Ware ; with introductory notes by John Barrington Bayley and Henry Hope Reed and a new foreword by Arthur Ross.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1994.

Description:

xiii, 124 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

The classical America series in art and architecture

Notes:
Previously published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1977.
The five orders -- Vignola's orders -- The Doric order -- The Ionic order -- The Corinthian order -- The composite order -- Geometrical relations -- Drawing -- General proportions -- Cornices -- Architraves -- Capitals and bases -- The Greek orders -- Pilasters -- Pedestals -- Parapets -- Balustrades -- Attics -- Pediments -- Intercolumniation -- Superposition -- Other cornices and string-courses -- Arches and vaults, roofs and domes, doors and windows, walls and ceilings, steps and staircases -- Arcades -- Gabled roofs -- Wall treatment.

Summary:

Ware founded America's first school of architecture at M.I.T. in 1865 and the school of architecture at Columbia U., and became the leading teacher of classical architecture. This textbook on classical architecture contains tables of the Tuscan, Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, and Com.

ISBN:

0486283100 (pbk.)
9780486283104 (pbk.)

Subject:

Vignola, 1507-1573.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture, Classical.
Architecture Details.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture antique.
Architecture Détails.

Added entries:

Classical America series in art and architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118494
Call No.: ID NA2815.W3; ID:95-B1625
Status: Available