About the Book
Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive anthology that brings together the classic essays in the field, the volume chronicles the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper. Classicism, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Gothic form the backbone of this unprecedented anthology, along with special consideration of major themes such as industry, ornament, style, and tectonics. Bringing together and making available in one place the major statements that have literally constructed architecture as a field - in English, German, French, and Italian - Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 (along with the forthcoming second volume, covering 1870 to 2000) is an indispensable reference for anyone - student or scholar - involved in the study of architecture.
Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; General; Introduction; Part I: Classicism and the RenaissanceA. The Classical and Medieval Traditions; Introduction; 1. Vitruvius from De architectura,Book 1 (c.25 B.C.); 2. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 2 (c.25 B.C.); 3. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 3 (c.25 B.C.); 4. Vitruvius from De architectura, Book 4 (c.25 B.C.); 5. Old Testament from I Kings6. Old Testament from The Book of Ezekiel (c.586 B.C.); 7. New Testament from The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John (c.95 A.D.); 8. Abbot Suger from The Book of Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis (c.1144); 9. William Durandus from Rationale divinorum officiorum (1286); B. Renaissance and Baroque Ideals; Introduction; 10. Antonio di Tuccio Manetti from The Life of Brunelleschi (1480s); 11. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Prologue and Book I (1443 - 1452); 12. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Book 613. Leon Battista Alberti from De re aedificatoria, Book 914. Il Filarete from Book I of untitled treatise on architecture (1461 - 3); 15. Il Filarete from Book VIII of untitled treatise on architecture16. Sebastiano Serlio from Book 3, De antiquita (1540); 17. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from Preface to Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562); 18. Palladio from I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570); 19. Juan Bautista Villalpando from In: Ezekielem Explanationes (1604); 20. Georgio Vasari from Preface to Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568); 21. Georgio Vasari from "Life of Michelangelo" in Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568); 22. Peter Paul Rubens from Preface to Palazzi di Genova (1622); Part II: Classicism in France and BritainA. French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns; Introduction; 23. Rene Descartes from Regulae ad Directionen Ingenii (1628); 24. Roland Freart de Chambray from Preface to Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne (1650); 25. Paul Freart de Chantelou from Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France (1665); 26. Francois Blondel from "Discours pronounce par Mr Blondel a l'ouverture de l'Academie d'Architecture" (1671); 27. Francois Blondel, from Cours d'architecture (1675); 28. Rene Ouvrard from Architecture harmonique (1677); 29. Claude Perraultannotations to French translation of Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve (1673); 30. Francois Blondel from Cours d'architecture, Vol. II (1683); 31. Claude Perrault from Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, second edition (1684); 32. Claude Perrault from Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes selon la methode des Anciens (1683); 33. Jean-Francois Felibien from Preface to Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus celebres architectes (1687); 34. Charles Perrault from Preface to Parallele des anciens et des modernes en ce qui regarde les arts et les sciences (1688); 35. Charles Perrault (1688 - 97); from "Dessin d'un portail pour l'Eglise de Sainte-Genevieve a Paris" (1697); 36. Michel de Fremin from Memoires critiques d'architecture (1702); 37. Jean-Louis de Cordemoy from Nouveau traite de toute l'architecture (1706, 1714); B. British Classicism and Palladianism; Introduction; 38. Henry Wotton from The Elements of Architecture (1624); 39. Christopher Wren from Tract I on architecture (mid-1670s); 40. Christopher Wren from Tracts II and IV on architecture (mid-1670s); 41. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711); 42. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from "A Letter Concerning Design" (1712); 43. Colin Campbell; Introduction; to Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. I (1715); 44. Nicholas Du BoisTranslator's Preface to The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715); 45. William Kent"Advertisement"to The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727); 46. James Gibbs,; Introduction; to A Book of Architecture (1728); 47. Robert Morris from An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture (1728); 48. Alexander Pope from Of False Taste (1731); 49. Isaac Ware"Advertisement" to Andrea Palladio: The Four Books of Architecture (1737); 50. Robert Morris from "An Essay upon Harmony" (1739); Part III: Neoclassicism and the EnlightenmentA. Early Neoclassicism; Introduction; 51. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach from Preface to Entwurf einer historischen Architektur (1721); 52. Voltaire from Lettres philosophiques sur les anglais (1733); 53. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot from "Memoire sur les proportions de l'architecture" (1739); 54. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot from "Memoire sur l'architecture gothique" (1741); 55. Carlo Lodoli from Notes for a projected treatise on architecture (c.1740s); 56. Baron de Montesquieu from Preface to L'Esprit des Lois (1748); 57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750); 58. Jean Le Rond D'Alembert from "Discours preliminaire des editeurs" (1751); 59. Jacques-Francois Blondel from "Architecture" in Diderot's Encyclopedie (1751); 60. Charles-Etienne Briseau from Preface to Traite du beau essentiel dans les arts (1752); 61. Marc-Antoine Laugier from Essai sur l'architecture (1753); 62. Marc-Antoine Laugier from Essai sur l'architecture (1753); 63. Isaac Ware from A Complete Body of Architecture,; Chapter II (1756); 64. Isaac Ware from A Complete Body of Architecture,; Chapter IX (1756); 65. William Chambers from A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759); 66. William Chambers from A Treatise on the Decorative; Part of Civil Architecture (1791); B. Greece and the Classical Ideal; Introduction; 67. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett from "Proposals for publishing an accurate description of the Antiquities of Athens" (1748); 68. Robert Wood and James Dawkins from The Ruins of Palmyra (1753); 69. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Gedanken uber die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755); 70. Allan Ramsay from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755); 71. Julien-David Leroy from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758); 72. Julien-David Leroy from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758); 73. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett from the Preface to The Antiquities of Athens (1762); 74. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764); 75. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764); 76. Johann Joachim Winckelmann from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764); 77. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from Osservazioni sopra la letter de Monsieur Mariette (1765); 78. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from Parere su l'architettura (1765); 79. Giovanni Battista Piranesi from "An Apologetical Essay in Defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan Architecture" (1769); C. Character and Expression; Introduction; 80. Germain Boffrand from Livre d'architecture (1745); 81. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac from Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746); 82. Julien-David Leroy from Histoire de la disposition et des formes differentes que les chrestiens ont donnees a leur temples (1764); 83. Jacques-Francois Blondel from Cours d'architecture (1771); 84. Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres from Le genie de l'architecture (1780); 85. Nicolas Le Camus de Mezieres from Le genie de l'architecture (1780); 86. Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux from Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens et celles des modernes (1787); 87. A. C. Quatremere de Quincy from Encyclopedie methodique (1788); 88. Etienne-Louis Boullee from Architecture, essai sur l'art (c.1794); 89. Etienne-Louis Boullee from Architecture, Essai sur l'art (c.1794); 90. Claude Nicolas Ledoux from L'architecture consideree sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la legislation (1804); 91. John Soane from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture (V and XI; 1812 - 15; Part IV: Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime; A. Sources of the Picturesque; Introduction; 92. John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690); 93. William Temple from "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening in the Year 1685" (1692); 94. John Vanbrugh; Letter to the Duchess of Marlborough (1709); 95. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury from "The Moralists" (1709); 96. Joseph Addison from The Spectator (1712); 97. Robert Castell from The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (1728); 98. Batty Langley from New Principles of Gardening (1728); 99. Robert Morris from Lectures on Architecture (1734 - 1736); 100. William Chambers from Designs of Chinese Buildings (1757); Recommended Readings; B. Toward a Relativist Aesthetics; Introduction; 101. John Locke from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, fourth edition (1700); 102. Joseph Addison from the Spectator (1712); 103. Jean Baptiste du Bos from Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music (1719); 104. Francis Hutcheson from An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725); 105. George Berkeley from the "Third Dialogue" of Alciphron (1732); 106. David Hume from A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 - 40); 107. Allan Ramsey from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755); 108. Alexander Gerard from An Essay on Taste (1756); 109. David Hume from "Of the Standard of Taste" (1757); 110. Edmund Burke from A Philosophical E
About the Author :
Harry Francis Mallgrave is Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His l996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians. He is also the author of Modern Architectural Theory 1673-1968 published in 2005.
Review :
"The book's range is stunning, its scholarship thoroughly accurate, and its rendering of ideas entirely lucid. Here we have a comprehensive and insightful account of theory that will, I trust, find its way onto the desks of students, professors, and professionals alike." David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania "Harry Mallgrave's Architectural Theory is the most scrupulous, discriminating, and useful anthology one could expect following the last three decades of intense study in the history of Western architectural theory." Martin Bressani, McGill University "[Architectural Theory] represents an extremely valuable resource for architectural design, history, and theory education and, more broadly, for aesthetic education, art history, aesthetics, and visual culture...an excellent stand-alone companion to the academic, undergraduate, and graduate student." Journal of Aesthetic Education
