Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1800

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustration sources......Page 13
Preface......Page 16
The Structure of Change Alexander Tzonis......Page 18
late tenth century Leo of Naples'Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle' Alexander Romance......Page 46
1057 Adelhard Account of the Abbey of Saint-Trond......Page 47
late 1120s Hugh of Saint-VictorDidascalicon......Page 48
1125 Bernard of Clairvaux Strong Words to William......Page 49
c.1143 Anonymous The Marvels of the City of Rome......Page 50
1144 Abbot Suger On the Consecration of the Church of Saint Denis......Page 51
1144  1149 Abbot Suger On Matters of Administration......Page 52
1225  1250 Villard de Honnecourt Sketchbook......Page 57
c.1270 Albrecht von Scharfenberg The Young Titurel......Page 58
late thirteenth century Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa and others The Travels of Marco Polo......Page 59
c.1306  1309 Dante (Alighieri) Inferno......Page 62
April 26, 1342 (Francesco) Petrarch The Ascent of Mount Ventoux......Page 63
late summer 1347 (Francesco) Petrarch Vaucluse......Page 64
1400, 1401 Anonymous Annals of the Duomo of Milan......Page 65
c.1410 Christine de Pisan The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats......Page 66
c.1428 Leon Battista Alberti Book of the Family......Page 67
1435  1436 Leon Battista Alberti On Painting......Page 69
1445  1450 composed; 1485 published Leon Battista Alberti On Building......Page 70
1451  1464 Antonio Averlino, called Filarete Treatise on Architecture......Page 84
1467completed; 1499 published Generally attributed to Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili......Page 94
1474  1482 Francesco di Giorgio Martini Treatises on Civil and Military Architecture......Page 99
1519 Raphael (Sanzio) Letter to Pope Leo X......Page 108
1521 Cesare Cesariano Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture......Page 112
1535 Francesco Giorgi (or Zorzi) Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna......Page 119
1537  1575 Sebastiano Serlio The Books on Architecture......Page 122
1550 Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects......Page 141
c.1554completed; Giovan Battista Bellucci New Inventions for Making Fortresses of Various published 1598 Forms......Page 145
1556 Daniele Barbaro Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books......Page 146
late 1550s Pirro Ligorio Book of Antiquity......Page 147
1561 Philibert de l'Orme New Inventions for Building Economically......Page 148
1563 Bernard Palissy 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......Page 155
1567  1575 Alvise Cornaro Treatise on Architecture......Page 158
1570 Andrea Palladio The Four Books of Architecture......Page 168
1590 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo The Idea of the Temple of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture......Page 180
c.1591 El Greco(Domenico Theotocopoulos) Marginalia to Daniele Barbaro's translation of Vitruvius......Page 181
1608 Federigo Zuccaro The Idea of Painters, Sculptors and Architects......Page 185
1615 Vincenzo Scamozzi Of The Idea of Universal Architecture......Page 186
1621written; 1667 published Teofilo Gallaccini Treatise on the Errors of the Architects......Page 189
1624 Ben Jonson Neptune's Triumph......Page 192
1624 Sir Henry Wotton Elements of Architecture......Page 196
c.1625 Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Younger Untitled Draft of a Letter to Pope Urban VIII about the Palazzo Barberini in Rome......Page 197
1637 Rene Descartes Discourse on Method......Page 199
1638 Galileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences......Page 200
1650 Roland Freart de Chambray Parallel of Antique and Modern Architecture......Page 206
1654 Count Emanuele Tesauro The Aristotelian Telescope......Page 207
1663 Jean de La Fontaine Account of a Trip to the Limousin......Page 209
1664  1665 Jean-Baptiste Colbert Observations on the Plans and Elevations of the Facade of the Louvre and Letter to Louis XIV......Page 210
1666 Sir Christopher Wren Surveyor's Report on the Condition of St Paul's Cathedral......Page 213
1669 Sir Christopher Wren Surveyor's Report on the Condition of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury......Page 214
c.1669written; 1810 published Jean Dominique Cassini The Manuscript of the Anecdotes of the Life of J.D. Cassini......Page 215
1672 Andre Felibien Description of the Grotto of Versailles......Page 216
1670s Sir Christopher Wren Tracts on Architecture......Page 220
1673 Claude Perrault The Ten Books of Vitruvius, Corrected and Translated with Notes and Figures......Page 221
1675 Francois Blondel Lessons of Architecture......Page 228
1678 Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz Civil Architecture, Orthogonal and Oblique......Page 236
after 1678written; 1737published Guarino Guarini Civil Architecture......Page 243
1681 Sebastien le Prtre, seigneur de Vauban Letter to Louvois......Page 249
1682 Antoine Desgodetz The Antique Buildings of Rome......Page 253
1683 Claude Perrault The Ordonnance of the Five Species of Columns......Page 257
1685written; 1692 published Sir William Temple The Gardens of Epicurus......Page 268
1689 Robert de Cotte Journey to Italy......Page 269
1691 Charles Augustin D'Aviler Lessons of Architecture......Page 270
1699 Jean-Francois Felibien des Avaux Dissertation Touching upon Ancient Architecture and Gothic Architecture......Page 273
1699 Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon The Adventures of Telemaque......Page 274
1702 Michel de Fremin A Critical Report on Architecture, Containing the True and False Architecture......Page 277
1710 Abbe Jean-Louis de CordemoyExtract 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......Page 282
1711 Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times......Page 283
1712 Joseph Addison The Spectator......Page 290
1721 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Outline of a Historical Architecture......Page 297
1724  1727 Daniel Defoe A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain......Page 299
1725 Jean Courtonne Treatise on Perspective with Some Remarks on Architecture......Page 307
1728 Robert Castell The Villas of the Ancients......Page 310
1728 Batty Langley New Principles of Gardening......Page 313
1731 Alexander Pope Moral Essays: Epistle to Lord Burlington......Page 317
1736 Robert Morris Lectures on Architecture......Page 321
1737  1739 Amedee-Francois Frezier The Theory and Practice of Stone Cutting and Wood Working......Page 325
1738 Amedee-Francois Frezier A Theoretical and Critical Dissertation on the Orders of Architecture......Page 327
1741 Jacques-Germain Soufflot A Report on Gothic Architecture......Page 330
1745 Gabriel-Germain Boffrand Book of Architecture......Page 333
1748 Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu An Essay on Taste......Page 334
1752  1757 Jacques-Francois Blondel French Architecture......Page 339
1753 William Hogarth The Analysis of Beauty......Page 347
1753 Marc-Antoine Laugier Essay on Architecture......Page 350
1754 Charles Nicolas Cochin'Supplication to the Goldsmiths', Mercure de France......Page 357
1755 Charles Nicolas Cochin'On a Very Bad Joke'......Page 359
1755 Morelly The Code of Nature......Page 360
1756 Count Francesco Algarotti Essay......Page 361
1757 Sir William Chambers Designs for Chinese Buildings......Page 363
1757 Edmund Burke Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful......Page 367
1758, revised 1770 Julien David Le Roy The Ruins of the most Beautiful Monuments of Greece......Page 375
1759 Count Francesco Algarotti Letter to a Gentlemen in Venice......Page 379
1759 Alexander Gerard An Essay on Taste......Page 380
1759 Sir William Chambers A Treatise on Civil Architecture......Page 383
1762 T.-N. Loyer Follow-up on my First Dissertation on How to Decorate Apartments......Page 384
1762 Johann Joachim Winckelmann Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients......Page 385
1765 Marc-Antoine Laugier Observations on Architecture......Page 389
1766 Denis Diderot'My Say on Architecture' and 'A Brief Corollary on What Went Before'......Page 390
1769 Giovanni Battista Piranesi Diverse Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys......Page 393
1769 Pierre Patte A Report on the Most Important Objects in Architecture......Page 394
1770 Charles Nicolas Cochin Letter from an Architectural Engraver to Monsieur Patte......Page 402
1770 Louis-Sebastien Mercier The Year 2440......Page 403
1771 Jacques-Francois Blondel Lessons on Architecture......Page 405
1771 Sir James Steuart Critical Observations on the Buildings and Improvements of London......Page 413
1772 Sir William Chambers Dissertation on Oriental Gardening......Page 415
1772 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe On German Architecture......Page 416
1774 Claude-Henri Watelet Essay on Gardens......Page 420
1776  1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reveries of the Solitary Walker......Page 422
1776 Jean Marie Morel Theory of Gardens......Page 424
1777 Jacques-Francois Blondel Lessons on Architecture  continued by P. Patte......Page 427
1777composed; 1787 published Jean-Baptiste Le Roy Precis for a Work on Hospitals......Page 428
1780 Nicolas Le Camus de Mezires The Genius of Architecture......Page 434
1781 Francesco Milizia Principles of Civil Architecture......Page 445
1783 Ribart de Chamoust The French Order Found in Nature......Page 449
1785composed; 1803 published Antoine-Chrysostme Quatremre de Quincy On Egyptian Architecture......Page 453
1786 Thomas Jefferson Letter to the Building Committee of the Virginia State Capitol......Page 458
1786 Nicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet Report on Hospitals......Page 459
1787 Jeremy Bentham Panopticon, or the Inspection House......Page 461
1787 Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux Letters on the Architecture of the Ancients and Moderns......Page 472
1788 Jacques Rene Tenon Reports on the Hospitals of Paris......Page 473
1792 Reverend William Gilpin'On Picturesque Beauty', Three Essays......Page 475
1797 Francesco Milizia Dictionary of the Fine Arts of Design......Page 476
1798 James Malton An Essay on British Cottage Architecture......Page 484
1793  1799 Etienne-Louis Boullee A Treatise on Architecture......Page 487
1801 Pierre Patte Critical Analysis of the Construction of the Pantheon Dome......Page 492
1803 Richard Elsam Essay on Rural Architecture......Page 493
1802  1805 Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand A Precis of the Lessons in Architecture Given at the Polytechnic School......Page 496
1804 Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Concerning Architecture Seen From the Point of View of Art, of Morals and Legislation......Page 505
1805 Charles-Francois Viel On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure the Solidity of Buildings......Page 513
c.1810 Francesco Milizia The Art of Seeing in the Fine Arts......Page 514
Bibliography and references......Page 519
Index......Page 543