St Paul's Cathedral: Sir Christopher Wren (Architecture in Detail) [Paperback]

Vaughan Hart (Author)

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Series: Architecture in Detail | Publication Date: November 5, 1995

St Paul's Cathedral is known as Sir Christopher Wren's masterwork, combining Renaissance and Baroque elements with a geometric form. It is a celebration of the refinement of the Vitruvian Orders and testimony to Wren's capacity to utilize traditional Gothic and Renaissance building methods within his own re-examination of architectural practice based on empirical reasoning and his mathematical knowledge. The book provides a through analysis of Wren's initial Cathedral schemes to the final built design - the first Protestant Cathedral to be built in Britain. The details both of the exterior and the interior, as well as the Cathedral's constructed dome, have been extensively photographed providing a presentation of this building. Built over a 30-year period following the Great Fire, the Cathedral still dominates the City of London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: Phaidon Press (November 5, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714829986
• ISBN-13: 978-0714829982
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 11.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,916,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars London, November 16, 2010

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Gives good insight to the construction of St. Paul's. I'd like to have more information about the details of the interior and the crypt area.