01651    a2200253   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001300151072002100164072002100185072002100206100002100227245006600248250000600314260003200320300001000352520101300362700002201375113871072520250317100353.0250312042017GB                   eng    a9781138710726  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 82.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJHB2thema7 aJHB2bic7 aARC0000002bisac7 aBUS0000002bisac7 aSOC0000002bisac1 aChristy Anderson10aBritish Architectural Theory 1540-1750bAn Anthology of Texts  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20171208  a282 p  bThis book was published in 2003.Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude such easy classification, such as the prolonged (but hardly studied) discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises. This collection of English writing on architecture from 1540 to 1750 offers a large selection of fragments, some of them never published before. They discuss the nature of architecture, the practicalities of building, the sense of the past, religious architecture and classicism. All fragments are introduced and annotated to facilitate use both by architectural historians and in the class-room.1 aCaroline Eck4B01