Architectural theory : from the Renaissance to the present : 89 essays on 117 treatises

Discusses, In 89 Concise Essays, The Most Important Treatises On Architecture From The Renaissance To Today. The Authors Explore The Origins Of Each Treatise And Examine The Motives That Have Prompted Architects Over The Past 500 Years To Set Down Their Ideas On Paper. Grouped By Nation And Epoch, The Writings Of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-duc, John Shute Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi And Rem Koolhaas Are Just Some Of Those Discussed--inside Front Cover. Italy / Veronica Biermann ... [et Al.] -- France / Christian Freigang, Jarl Kremeier -- Spain / Barbara Borngässer Klein -- England / Carsten Ruhl -- Germany / Bernd Evers, Jürgen Zimmer -- 20th Century / Gilbert Lupfer, Jürgen Paul, Paul Sigel. With A Preface By Bernd Evers And An Introduction By Christof Thoenes ; In Cooperation With The Kunstbibliothek Der Staatlichen Museen Zu Berlin ; [english Translation, Gregory Fauria, Jeremy Gaines, Michael Shuttleworth]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 826-833) And Index. Translated From The German. Italien: Leon Battista Alberti, Antonio Averlino Filarete, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona, Cesare Cesariano, Sebastiano Serlio, Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Pietro Cataneo, Daniele Barbaro, Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Guarino Guarini, Andrea Pozzo, Domenico de' Rossi, Guiseppe Galli Bibiena, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Bernardo Antonio Vittone, Francesco Milizia, Giovanni Battista Cipriani Frankrig: Villard de Hohhecourt, Jean Martin, Philibert de l'Orme, Jacques Androuet du Cerveau, Pierre Le Muet, Roland Freart de Chambray, Claude Perrault, Francois Blondel, Augustin Charles D'Aviler, Jean-Louis de Cardemoy, Charles-Etienne Briseux, Germain Boffrand, Jacques-Francois Blondel, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Marie-Joseph Peyre, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux, Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand, Jean Baptiste Rondelet, Guillaume Abel Blouet, Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Spanien: Diego de Sagredo, Juan Bautista Villapando, Fray Lorenzo de San Nicholas, Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz England: John Shute, Henry Wotton, Colen Campbell, James Gibbs, Robert Morris, Isaac Ware, William Chambers, Augustus Welby Pugin, John Ruskin Illustrated throughout, this volume brings together all of the most important and influential essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, neatly organized chronologically by country.