Main entry:
Lefaivre, Liane.
Title & Author:
The emergence of modern architecture : a documentary history from 1000 to 1810 / Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis.
Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
Description:
xvi, 533 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-525) and indexes.
Structure of Change / Alexander Tzonis -- 'Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle' Alexander Romance (late tenth century) / Leo of Naples -- Account of the Abbey of Saint-Trond (1057) / Adelhard -- Description of Fecamp (c.1110) / Baudri, Bishop of Dol -- Didascalicon (late 1120s) / Hugh of Saint-Victor -- Strong Words to William (1125) / Bernard of Clairvaux -- Marvels of the City of Rome (c.1143) / Anonymous -- On the Consecration of the Church of Saint Denis (1144) / Abbot Suger -- On Matters of Administration (1144-1149) / Abbot Suger -- Conquest of Constantinople (1216) / Robert of Clari -- Sketchbook (1225-1250) / Villard de Honnecourt -- Young Titurel (c.1270) / Albrecht von Scharfenberg -- Travels of Marco Polo (late thirteenth century) / Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa and others -- Inferno (c.1306-1309) / Dante (Alighieri) -- Ascent of Mount Ventoux (April 26, 1342) / (Francesco) Petrarch -- Vaucluse (late summer 1347) / (Francesco) Petrarch -- Annals of the Duomo of Milan (1400, 1401) / Anonymous -- Book of Military and Chivalric Feats (c.1410) / Christine de Pisan -- Book of the Family (c.1428) / Leon Battista Alberti -- On Painting (1435-1436) / Leon Battista Alberti -- On Building (1445-1450 composed; 1485 published) / Leon Battista Alberti -- Treatise on Architecture (1451-1464) / Antonio Averlino, called Filarete -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1467 completed; 1499 published) / Generally attributed to Francesco Colonna -- Treatises on Civil and Military Architecture (1474-1482) / Francesco di Giorgio Martini -- Letter to Pope Leo X (1519) / Raphael (Sanzio) -- Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture (1521) / Cesare Cesariano -- Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna (1535) / Francesco Giorgi (or Zorzi) -- Books on Architecture (1537-1575) / Sebastiano Serlio.
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550) / Giorgio Vasari -- New Inventions for Making Fortresses of Various Forms (c.1554 completed; published 1598) / Giovan Battista Bellucci -- Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books (1556) / Daniele Barbaro -- Book of Antiquity (late 1550s) / Pirro Ligorio -- New Inventions for Building Economically (1561) / Philibert de l'Orme -- True Recipe by Which the People of France Will be Able to Multiply their Fortunes. Also the Design and Ordonnance of a Fortified City That is the Most Unassailable Ever Heard Of (1563) / Bernard Palissy -- Treatise on Architecture (1567-1575) / Alvise Cornaro -- First Volume of Architecture (1567-1648) / Philibert de l'Orme -- Four Books of Architecture (1570) / Andrea Palladio -- Idea of the Temple of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1590) / Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo -- Marginalia to Daniele Barbaro's translation of Vitruvius (c.1591) / El Greco (Domenico Theotocopoulos) -- Idea of Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1608) / Federigo Zuccaro -- Of The Idea of Universal Architecture (1615) / Vincenzo Scamozzi -- Treatise on the Errors of the Architects (1621 written; 1767 published) / Teofilo Gallaccini -- Neptune's Triumph (1624) / Ben Jonson -- Elements of Architecture (1624) / Sir Henry Wotton -- Untitled Draft of a Letter to Pope Urban VIII about the Palazzo Barberini in Rome (c.1625) / Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Younger -- 'On Building', The Essays (1625) / Francis Bacon -- Discourse on Method (1637) / Rene Descartes -- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638) / Galileo Galilei -- Parallel of Antique and Modern Architecture (1650) / Roland Freart de Chambray -- Aristotelian Telescope (1654) / Count Emanuele Tesauro -- Account of a Trip to the Limousin (1663) / Jean de La Fontaine.
Idea of the Painter, Sculptor, and Architect Chosen from the Superior Natural Beauty of Nature (1664 written; 1672 published) / Giovanni Pietro Bellori -- Observations on the Plans and Elevations of the Facade of the Louvre and Letter to Louis XIV (1664-1665) / Jean-Baptiste Colbert -- Surveyor's Report on the Condition of St Paul's Cathedral (1666) / Sir Christopher Wren -- Surveyor's Report on the Condition of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1669) / Sir Christopher Wren -- Manuscript of the Anecdotes of the Life of J.D. Cassini (c.1669 written; 1810 published) / Jean Dominique Cassini -- History of the August and Venerable Church of Chartres (1671) / Vincent Sablon -- Description of the Grotto of Versailles (1672) / Andre Felibien -- Tracts on Architecture (1670s) / Sir Christopher Wren -- Ten Books of Vitruvius, Corrected and Translated with Notes and Figures (1673) / Claude Perrault -- Lessons of Architecture (1675) / Francois Blondel -- Civil Architecture, Orthogonal and Oblique (1678) / Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz -- Civil Architecture (after 1678 written; 1737 published) / Guarino Guarini -- Letter to Louvois (1681) / Sebastien le Pretre, seigneur de Vauban -- Some Maxims That Are Good to Observe for All Those Who Build (1680s) / Sebastien le Pretre, seigneur de Vauban -- Antique Buildings of Rome (1682) / Antoine Desgodetz -- Ordonnance of the Five Species of Columns (1683) / Claude Perrault -- Gardens of Epicurus (1685 written; 1692 published) / Sir William Temple -- Journey to Italy (1689) / Robert de Cotte -- Lessons of Architecture (1691) / Charles Augustin D'Aviler -- Dissertation Touching upon Ancient Architecture and Gothic Architecture (1699) / Jean-Francois Felibien des Avaux -- Adventures of Telemaque (1699) / Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon.
Critical Report on Architecture, Containing the True and False Architecture (1702) / Michel de Fremin -- Extract from a Letter by the Author ... to the Remarks of M. Frezier, Ingenieur Ordinaire du Roy, proffered in the Journal de Trevoux in the Month of September (1710) / Abbe Jean-Louis de Cordemoy -- Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711) / Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury -- Spectator (1712) / Joseph Addison -- Outline of a Historical Architecture (1721) / Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach -- Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-1727) / Daniel Defoe -- Treatise on Perspective with Some Remarks on Architecture (1725) / Jean Courtonne -- Villas of the Ancients (1728) / Robert Castell -- New Principles of Gardening (1728) / Batty Langley -- Moral Essays: Epistle to Lord Burlington (1731) / Alexander Pope -- Lectures on Architecture (1736) / Robert Morris -- Theory and Practice of Stone Cutting and Wood Working (1737-1739) / Amedee-Francois Frezier -- Theoretical and Critical Dissertation on the Orders of Architecture (1738) / Amedee-Francois Frezier -- Report on Gothic Architecture (1741) / Jacques-Germain Soufflot -- Book of Architecture (1745) / Gabriel-Germain Boffrand -- Essay on Taste (1748) / Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu -- French Architecture (1752-1757) / Jacques-Francois Blondel -- Analysis of Beauty (1753) / William Hogarth -- Essay on Architecture (1753) / Marc-Antoine Laugier -- 'Supplication to the Goldsmiths', Mercure de France (1754) / Charles Nicolas Cochin -- 'On a Very Bad Joke' (1755) / Charles Nicolas Cochin -- Code of Nature (1755) / Morelly -- Essay (1756) / Count Francesco Algarotti -- Designs for Chinese Buildings (1757) / Sir William Chambers -- Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) / Edmund Burke.
Ruins of the most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758, revised 1770) / Julien David Le Roy -- Letter to a Gentlemen in Venice (1759) / Count Francesco Algarotti -- Essay on Taste (1759) / Alexander Gerard -- Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759) / Sir William Chambers -- Follow-up on my First Dissertation on How to Decorate Apartments (1762) / T.-N. Loyer -- Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients (1762) / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Observations on Architecture (1765) / Marc-Antoine Laugier -- 'My Say on Architecture' and 'A Brief Corollary on What Went Before' (1766) / Denis Diderot -- Diverse Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys (1769) / Giovanni Battista Piranesi -- Report on the Most Important Objects in Architecture (1769) / Pierre Patte -- Letter from an Architectural Engraver to Monsieur Patte (1770) / Charles Nicolas Cochin -- Year 2440 (1770) / Louis-Sebastien Mercier -- Lessons on Architecture (1771) / Jacques-Francois Blondel -- Critical Observations on the Buildings and Improvements of London (1771) / Sir James Steuart -- Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772) / Sir William Chambers -- Letter to a Gentleman Who Had Objected to Certain Parts of his Treatise on Oriental Gardening (1772) / Sir William Chambers -- On German Architecture (1772) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Essay on Gardens (1774) / Claude-Henri Watelet -- Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1776-1778) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Theory of Gardens (1776) / Jean Marie Morel -- Lessons on Architecture ... continued by P. Patte (1777) / Jacques-Francois Blondel -- Precis for a Work on Hospitals (1777 composed; 1787 published) / Jean-Baptiste Le Roy -- Genius of Architecture (1780) / Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres -- Principles of Civil Architecture (1781) / Francesco Milizia -- French Order Found in Nature (1783) / Ribart de Chamoust.
On Egyptian Architecture (1785 composed; 1803 published) / Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy -- Letter to the Building Committee of the Virginia State Capitol (1786) / Thomas Jefferson -- Report on Hospitals (1786) / Nicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet -- Panopticon, or the Inspection House (1787) / Jeremy Bentham -- Letters on the Architecture of the Ancients and Moderns (1787) / Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux -- Reports on the Hospitals of Paris (1788) / Jacques Rene Tenon -- 'On Picturesque Beauty', Three Essays (1792) / Reverend William Gilpin -- Dictionary of the Fine Arts of Design (1797) / Francesco Milizia -- Essay on British Cottage Architecture (1798) / James Malton -- Treatise on Architecture (1793-1799) / Etienne-Louis Boullee -- Critical Analysis of the Construction of the Pantheon Dome (1801) / Pierre Patte -- Essay on Rural Architecture (1803) / Richard Elsam -- Precis of the Lessons in Architecture Given at the Polytechnic School (1802-1805) / Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand -- Concerning Architecture Seen From the Point of View of Art, of Morals and Legislation (1804) / Claude-Nicolas Ledoux -- On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure the Solidity of Buildings (1805) / Charles-Francois Viel -- Art of Seeing in the Fine Arts (c.1810) / Francesco Milizia.
Summary:
This documentary history records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across our contemporary disciplinarian and institutional divisions, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past.
ISBN:
0415260248 (hbk.)
9780415260244 (hbk.)
0415260256 (pbk.)
9780415260251 (pbk.)
9780203380512
0203380517
Subject:
Architecture History.
Architecture Sources.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architecte.
Histoire.
Form/genre:
Sources.
History.
Encyclopédie (Descripteur de forme)
Manuel de référence (Descripteur de forme)
Added entries:
Tzonis, Alexander.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 231027
Call No.: NA500 .E6 2004
Status: Available
