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Vitrivius britannicus second series

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The sequel to the Dover edition of Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius), this magnificent volume comprises three folios, originally published between 1739 and 1771. More than 100 plates depict facades, ground plans, exterior elevations, and perspective views of grand Neo-Palladian buildings. This inexpensive edition will be an essential reference for architects and designers.

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The four books on architecture

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Translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield.

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Sebastiano Serlio on architecture : volume one

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Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century; despite this, his writings have been virtually inaccessible until now. This translation of Serlio's five-volume treatise--he died before publishing two further volumes--replaces the only other English version, one that was produced in 1611 from an inaccurate Dutch translation of the Italian original. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, working directly from Serlio's own corrected editions, here provide new access to his highly influential treatise. Serlio introduced northern Europe to the principles of classical design. When Christopher Wren was building St. Paul's Cathedral and when John Wood designed the streets of Bath, for example, both architects had Serlio's books on hand. Serlio begins with the rules of geometry and perspective, and continues with a description of the ornamental splendor of the baths, temples, arches, and palaces of ancient Rome. He includes advice on how to incorporate classical features into interior designs. In an innovative discussion of Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns, to which he added Composite, Serlio established a canon of Five Orders that held authority for over a century. He illustrates the use of these orders in twelve temple designs. Serlio's attempt to codify the rules of a design language that utilized tradition while facilitating invention mirrors similar efforts by architects in the twentieth century to establish an architectural order through rules governing proportion and form. Serlio's beautiful woodcut illustrations are reproduced in this edition, which also includes a thorough introduction, commentary, and glossary of terms.

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Geometria et perspectiva

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« Geometria et perspectiva » de Lorenz Stoër est un ouvrage publié en 1567. Elève d’un élève de Dürer, qui quelques décennies auparavant (1525) avait posé les bases de la perspective moderne à la suite d’Alberti, Stoër n’a laissé que peu de traces dans l’histoire de l’art – en dehors de cet ouvrage inclassable ne subsistent de lui que trois recueils de dessins (souvent) répétitifs de polyèdres et quelques dessins. « Geometria et Perspectiva » ne compte que 12 feuillets (soit 24 pages), sans aucun texte ni (même) introduction : chaque feuillet reproduit en son recto une gravure d’une sorte de paysage où fragments de ruines monumentales voûtées (peut-être antiques), arbres et plantes, ornements en courbes et contrecourbes en formes de S ou de C, et corps géométriques en forme de polyèdres se trouvent superposés au sein d’une perspective générale défiant les lois « naturelles » régissant la mise en oeuvre d’une profondeur de champ supposée reproduire la vision d’un paysage. Probablement liées à la pratique de la marqueterie, ces planches étranges sont fascinantes en ce qu’elles offrent à voir des paysages totalement imaginaires dont les « fausses perspectives » ne sont pas sans rappeler l’oeuvre bien ultérieure de M. C. Escher.

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Architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present

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This book brings together important and influential essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, copiously illustrated and organized chronologically by country. From Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, some of architecture's most important treatises are gathered here, each accompanied by an essay discussing its historical context and significance.

Titre:
L'art d'édifier

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Alberti fut le premier, dans la culture occidentale, à ériger l'aménagement de l'espace en discipline autonome. En cela, il s'adresse encore aujourd'hui à tous ceux, praticiens ou non, que concerne l'édification de notre cadre de vie. Le De re aedificatoria n'avait jamais été retraduit en français depuis la version donnée en 1553 par Jean Martin.

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The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance

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Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused.