01676 a2200265 4500 1138710725 20250317100353.0 250312042017GB eng 9781138710726 Taylor & Francis GBP 82.99 BB 01 eng JHB thema JHB bic ARC000000 bisac BUS000000 bisac SOC000000 bisac Christy Anderson British Architectural Theory 1540-1750 An Anthology of Texts 1 Oxford Routledge 20171208 282 p This 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. Caroline Eck B01 311 311