Architectural Theory

by Evers, Bernd

• ISBN13: 9783822816998
• ISBN10: 382281699X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-12
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Summary

This book charls the fascinating history of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present day. Addressing its subject country by country and featuring over 850 illustrations, it offers a chronological overview of the most important architects and architectural theoreticians from Alberti to Koolhaas. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Introduction	p. 8
Italy	p. 20
Leon Battista Alberti	p. 22
Antonio Averlino, called Filarete	p. 28
Francesco di Giorgio Martini	p. 38
Anonymous	p. 48
Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona	p. 60
Cesare Cesariano	p. 66
Sebastiano Serlio	p. 76
Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola	p. 86
Pietro Cataneo	p. 96
Daniele Barbaro	p. 102
Andrea Palladio	p. 110
Vincenzo Scamozzi	p. 118
Guarino Guarini	p. 128
Andrea Pozzo	p. 138
Domenico de' Rossi	p. 148
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena	p. 156
Giovanni Battista Piranesi	p. 164
Bernardo Antonio Vittone	p. 174
Francesco Milizia and Giovanni Battista Cipriani	p. 184
France	p. 192
Villard de Honnecourt	p. 194
Jean Martin	p. 202
Philibert de l'Orme	p. 212
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau	p. 220
Pierre Le Muet	p. 232
Roland Freart de Chambray	p. 240
Claude Perrault	p. 248
Francois Blondel	p. 258
Augustin Charles D'Aviler	p. 264
Jean-Louis de Cordemoy	p. 274
Charles-Etienne Briseux	p. 278
Germain Boffrand	p. 288
Jacques-Francois Blondel	p. 296
Marc-Antoine Laugier	p. 310
Marie-Joseph Peyre	p. 312
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux	p. 318
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand	p. 328
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet and Guillaume Abel Blouet	p. 336
Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc	p. 344
Spain	p. 356
Diego de Sagredo	p. 358
Juan Bautista Villalpando	p. 366
Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolas	p. 378
Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz	p. 386
England	p. 398
John Shute	p. 400
Henry Wotton	p. 406
Colen Campbell	p. 412
James Gibbs	p. 422
Robert Morris	p. 430
Isaac Ware	p. 438
William Chambers	p. 446
Augustus Welby Pugin	p. 454
John Ruskin	p. 462
Germany	p. 470
Albrecht Durer	p. 472
Walther Rivius or Ryff	p. 482
Hans Blum	p. 494
Hans Vredeman de Vries	p. 500
Daniel Speckle	p. 510
Wendel Dietterlin	p. 520
Joseph Furttenbach the Elder	p. 530
Abraham Leuthner von Grundt	p. 540
Nicolaus Goldmann and Leonhard Christoph Sturm	p. 550
Paulus Decker	p. 560
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach	p. 574
Friedrich Weinbrenner	p. 586
Karl Friedrich Schinkel	p. 594
Leo von Klenze	p. 604
Christian Carl Josias Bunsen, Johann Gottfried Gutensohn, Johann Michael Knapp	p. 612
Heinrich Hubsch	p. 622
Gottfried Semper	p. 626
Friedrich Hoffstadt	p. 634
Carl Alexander Heideloff	p. 642
Georg Gottlob Ungewitter	p. 648
20th century	p. 658
Camillo Sitte	p. 660
Ebenezer Howard	p. 668
Adolf Loos	p. 674
Tony Garnier	p. 680
Bruno Taut	p. 692
Le Corbusier	p. 704
Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson	p. 714
Walter Gropius	p. 722
Frank Lloyd Wright	p. 732
Paul Schmitthenner	p. 742
Sigfried Giedion	p. 752
Council of Ministers of the GDR	p. 764
Archigram	p. 770
Kisho Kurokawa	p. 776
Aldo Rossi	p. 782
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour	p. 790
Charles A. Jencks	p. 802
Rem Koolhaas	p. 812
Bibliography	p. 826
Index	p. 834
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