As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
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I am as astonished to find this book written, so great was the scholarship and labor involved, as I am to find it previosly unwritten, so great is the need for it. Its scale and scope is unique. Philip Tabor, Architectural Review
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Though outdated in significant ways -- with the entire second half essentially eclipsed by Harry Mallgrave's stunningly comprehensive history of modern architectural theory (Cambridge, 2005) -- this is still worth owning and reading for the material from Vitruvius to Perrault.
The enormous bibliography is, due to its cumbersome organization, rather daunting and not nearly as useful as it should be. Maddening as it is, it is still an essential volume for anyone even remotely interested in the rationale behind the stylistic appearances of our built environment.
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Vitruvius's De architectura libri decem is the only major work on the architecture of Classical Antiquity to have survived. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
several reprs, arquitectura obliqua, architecturae civilis, primal hut, bon gofit, disegno interrotto, numerous eds, città sovietica, further eds, civil recta, und ornament, ordini architettonici, architectural polychromy, sollen wir bauen, della architettura universale, architectural theory, architettura militare, several eds, bon goat, architecture parlante, sesto libro, architettura civile, organic ornament, bien bastir, cité industrielle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Solomon's Temple, Fréart de Chambray, Andrea Palladio, François Blondel, Claude Perrault, Rudolf Wittkower, Vitruvius Britannicus, Sebastiano Serlio, Inigo Jones, United States, Fischer von Erlach, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Nikolaus Pevsner, Courtauld Institutes, Fra Giocondo, Philibert Delorme, Society of Architectural Historians, Giorgio Martini, Villard de Honnecourt, Deutscher Werkbund, Francesco Milizia, John Soane, Galli Bibiena New!
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Vitruvius's De architectura libri decem is the only major work on the architecture of Classical Antiquity to have survived. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
several reprs, arquitectura obliqua, architecturae civilis, primal hut, bon gofit, disegno interrotto, numerous eds, città sovietica, further eds, civil recta, und ornament, ordini architettonici, architectural polychromy, sollen wir bauen, della architettura universale, architectural theory, architettura militare, several eds, bon goat, architecture parlante, sesto libro, architettura civile, organic ornament, bien bastir, cité industrielle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Solomon's Temple, Fréart de Chambray, Andrea Palladio, François Blondel, Claude Perrault, Rudolf Wittkower, Vitruvius Britannicus, Sebastiano Serlio, Inigo Jones, United States, Fischer von Erlach, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Nikolaus Pevsner, Courtauld Institutes, Fra Giocondo, Philibert Delorme, Society of Architectural Historians, Giorgio Martini, Villard de Honnecourt, Deutscher Werkbund, Francesco Milizia, John Soane, Galli Bibiena New!
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