Companions to the History of Architecture, 4 Volume Set

Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and practice ranging from the 15th century to the present day. AUTHORITATIVE: Brings together an international team of over one hundred eminent historians, academics and practising architects  USER-FRIENDLY: Accessibly structured into volumes organized both chronologically and thematically, spanning the architecture of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods, through to the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries  INCLUSIVE: Spans a broad and global range of issues, from the impact of war and religion on city architecture; its relationship with the public; and architecture and the sciences; to examples such as materials and Tectonic expression; Beaux-arts and the Gothic; and contemporary issues, such as contemporary architecture’s critical review of its cultural production, ecology, technological saturation, and ontological engagement with a world now largely urbanized CUTTING-EDGE: Reviews the most recent developments in the field, including theory and practice from the past ten years, along with likely future developments in the history of architecture MULTI-FORMAT: Publishing simultaneously in print and online, providing an unparalleled reference work for students and scholars alike

Table of Contents:
VOLUME I List of Illustrations About the Editors Contributors to Volume I Contents of The Companions to the History of Architecture Introduction: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Alina Payne xxv Part I The Building Blocks Architecture and its Culture 1. When did the Renaissance in Architecture Begin?: From Panofskian Mythography to Vasarian History Marvin Trachtenberg 2. Vitruvius and the Architectural Treatise in Early Modern Europe Tod A. Marder 3. Architecture and Antique Sculpture in Early Modern Rome Kathleen Christian 4. What Drawings did in Renaissance Italy Cammy Brothers 5. Materiality, Ornament, and Media Overlaps: Architecture Between Art and Building Science Alina Payne 6. Theater and Architecture: Toward a Material History of Renaissance Theater Alice Jarrard 7. Architecture and the Sciences Pamela O. Long 8. Vaults and Domes: Statics as an Art Federico Bellini City, War, and Religion 9. The Birth of the Modern City Claudia Conforti 10. The City at War and the Semantic Armament of Renaissance Architecture Marion Hilliges 11. Taking Place: Architecture and Religious Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy Helen Hills 12. Jesuit Architecture Worldwide: A Culture of Corporate Invention Evonne Levy Part II Global Geographies and European Internationalism France, the Low Countries, and Britain 13. Medici Queens as Patrons in France Sabine Frommel 14. Classicism and Church Architecture in Early Seventeenth-Century France: Aspects and Debates Erika Naginski 15. Religious Architecture and the Image in the Southern Netherlands after the Beeldenstorm: Shrines for Miracle-Working Statues of the Virgin Mary Maarten Delbeke 16. British Classicism to 1700 and the Search for a National Architectural Style Vaughan Hart 17. Understanding Roman Architecture from a Distance: Sir Christopher Wren on the Temples of Peace and of Mars the Avenger Caroline van Eck Iberia, Spanish Italy, the Ottomans, and Latin America 18. Al-Andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula Maria Feliciano and Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza 19. The Spanish Kingdom of Southern Italy: Architecture in Naples, Lecce, L’Aquila Daniela del Pesco 20. Architectural Dialogues across the Eastern Mediterranean: Monumental Domed Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy Gülru Necipoğlu 21. The Classical Ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese World: From Lisbon to China Nuno Senos 22. Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism for a Universal Monarchy Jesús Escobar 23. The Architecture of the Early Modern Period “Because Vitruvius did not Recommend Square Columns”: Europe, Latin America, and the Globalization of the Renaissance Tom Cummins The German Lands and Bohemia 24. Northern Imaginative Antiquarianism: The Dismembered Column as Relic and Tool Christopher P. Heuer 25. The Reception and Flowering of Classicism in the German Lands Harry Francis Mallgrave 26. Crossbreeding Cultures: Italian and Local, Elite and Popular: Building in Bohemia, 1490–1720 Dirk De Meyer Index VOLUME II Contributors to Volume II Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Architecture Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong Part I: The Main Actors The Architect 1 Open to all: Architectural education in the eighteenth century Freek Schmidt 2 Architects’ Libraries Robin L. Thomas 3 Laugier’s Prototypal Hut, Soufflot’s Sainte-Geneviève, and the Enlightenment Theory of Representation Neil Levine 4 Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Architecture Jean-François Bédard Building Portraits 1698-1731 [format of these TBC] Greenwich Hospital (1698 – 1728) Vaughan Hart Castle Howard (1699-1712) Neil Levine Blenheim (1705) Vaughan Hart Superga (1716-1731) Cornelia Joechner The Public 5 Architecture and the Spectator Caroline Van Eck 6 To Move and to be Moved: Experiencing Architectural Space Sigrid de Jong 7 Public Debate on Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France Richard Wittman 8 Between the Stage and the Public Space: Refiguring Spectatorship in French Theatre Architecture Bram van Oostveldt 9 Festival architecture as well-ordered entertainment Eric Monin Building Portraits 1716-1732 Karlskirche (1716-1737) Anja Schuermann Hôtel Amelot (1717) Freek Schmidt Saint Mary-le-Strand (1724) Vaughan Hart Chiswick Villa (1726-1732) Barbara Arciszewska The Patron 10 The Office of the King’s Works and the Modernization of Architectural Patronage in England Barbara Arciszewska 11 ‘The Body Natural as well as the Body Politic stands indebted’: the hospital - foundation, funding and form Ann-Marie Akehurst 12 Denmark, Norway and Sweden: the flirt with the French and its long-term effects Juliette Roding 13 Interiors and Patronage Meredith Martin 14 Female Architectural Patronage in 18th-Century France Claire Ollagnier Residenz Würzburg (1729-1744) Freek Schmidt All Souls College (1735) Vaughan Hart Radcliffe Camera (1739-1749) Vaughan Hart Vierzehnheiligen (1742-1744) Jean-François Bédard Part II: The Architectural Discourse The Schools and the Academies 15 The Académie Royale d’Architecture 1671-1793 Christopher Drew Armstrong 16 London, Parma, Dresden. Exposition, Competition, Exhibition Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey 17 Architectural Discourse in Rome: Academies, Ruins and Books Heather Hyde Minor 18 Architectural Debate in Venice Lola Kantor-Kazovsky Sanssouci (1743-45) Jean-François Bédard Bayreuth (1748) Bram Van oostveldt Strawberry Hill (1749-1790) Michael Snodin Albergo dei Poveri (1751) Robin L. Thomas Caserta (1751) Robin L. Thomas Architecture and the Sciences 19 ‘An exact and irreprochable Piece of Architecture should be the Flower and Crown as it were of all the Sciences Mathematical’ Matthew Walker 20 Measuring Classical Architecture Amalia Papaioannou Villa Albani (1757-1759) Lauran Schijvens Syon House (1760-1768) Adriano Aynonimo Petit Trianon (1761) Christopher Drew Armstrong Ecole de Chirurgie (1769-1774) Richard Wittman History and Historiography 21 Zeitgeist, Style, and Stimmung – notes on the historiography of architecture in the late eighteenth century Mari Hvattum 22 The Historical Experience of How it All Began: the quest for the origins of architecture Sigrid de Jong 23 Monuments Maarten Delbeke Théâtre Bordeaux (1773-1782) Christopher Drew Armstrong Somerset House (1776-1801) Adriano Aynonimo Barrières (1785) Christopher Drew Armstrong Luscombe House (1799) John MacArthur VOLUME III Contributors to Volume III Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Architecture Martin Bressani and Christina Contandriopoulos Part I Historicism, the Beaux-Arts, and the Gothic 1. Revivalism Martin Bressani 2. Antiquity Reborn: Quatremère de Quincy’s Argument for Polychromy in Le Jupiter Olympien Nicholas Roquet 3. The French Beaux-Arts Jean-Philippe Garric 4. Outward Forms and Inward Spirit: The Recovery of Historical Church Architecture in the Nineteenth Century Stephen Bann 5. Romantic Historiography and the Paradoxes of Historicist Architecture Barry Bergdoll 6. Ruskin and Victorian Gothic Stephen Kite 7. The Search for a National Style Ákos Moravánszky 8. Gothic Historiography: An Interdisciplinary Speculation Cameron A. Macdonell Part II Debates on Structure, Materials, and Tectonic Expression 9. The New Material-Based Realism of Nineteenth-Century Theory and Practice Neil Levine 10. Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Architecture Timothy Brittain-Catlin 11. German Tectonics Mitchell Schwartzer 12. Gottfried Semper and Modern German Theory Harry Francis Mallgrave 13. Viollet-le-Duc’s Rationalism Martin Bressani 14. Between the Visible and the Legible: Iron and Reinforced Concrete in Fin-de-Siècle France Réjean Legault Part III The Question of the House, Social Utopias, Science, and New Technological Infrastructures 15. Domestic Architecture as a Mode of Separation Annmarie Adam 16. “The Science of the Plan.” House-Building and the Like, 1860–1930 Laurent Stalder 17. Comfort: Architecture’s Technological Dream Georges Teyssot 18. Universal Expositions, Utopia, and Architecture Antoine Picon 19. The Fourierist Phalanstère: Building a New Society through Architecture? Laurent Baridon 20. From Object to Field: The Uses of Photography by Nineteenth-Century Architects Peter Sealy Part IV Psychology, Aesthetic, and Ornament 21. Decoration as Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Britain David Brett 22. Ornament and Expressive Lines: Nature and Symbol in Victor Ruprich-Robert's Flore ornementale Ralph Ghoche 23. Constructing Emotions. The Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture in France 1860–1900 Estelle Thibault 24. The Tectonics of the Soul: Animist Survivals in Nineteenth-Century Architecture and Ornamentation Spyros Papapetros Part V America 25. Furness, Richardson, and Sullivan, and the Anglo-French Synthesis Michael J. Lewis 26. What American Architects Learned in Paris, 1845–1914 David Van Zanten 27. Structural Expression and Functional Representation in American Architecture 1850–1910 Joseph M. Siry 28. Canadian Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Identities in Tension Marc Grignon and Christopher Thomas Part VI Colonialism and Cross-Perspectives: Japan, China, Russia, India, etc. 29. Russian Architecture of the Nineteenth Century Dmitry Shvidkovsky 30. Multiple Modernisms in Khedivial Egypt Mercedes Volait 31. Dismembering and Remembering the Mughal Virtuous City in Nineteenth-Century British India Santhi Kavuri-Bauer 32. Of Emperor and Empire: Architectural Constructions of Imperial Japan Alice Y. Tseng Index VOLUME IV Contributors to Volume IV Introduction: The Project and Projects of Modern Architecture David Leatherbarrow Part I The Early Twentieth Century: Anticipating Modern Worlds Introduction Alexander Eisenschmidt 1. Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store/Carson Pirie Scott Joanna Merwood-Salisbury 2. House for an Art Lover: Reverberating Echoes Amy Kulper 3. Postal Savings Bank: Timeless Modernity Béla Kerékgyártó 4. AEG Turbine Factory Gabriele H. Bryant 5. Glass House at Cologne Markus Breitschmid 6. Città Nuova: Fast and Slow Futurism Michelangelo Sabatino Part II The Modern Project: Imagining New Worlds Introduction David Leatherbarrow 7. Monument to the Third International Richard Anderson 8. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper: Transfiguration through Glass, or Vertical and Horizontal Transparencies Ufuk Ersoy 9. Brick Country House Project George Dodds 10. Stockholm Public Library Michael Asgaard Andersen 11. Contra-Construction: Theo Van Doesburg’s Oblique View of Modern Architecture Hilary Bryon 12. Plan Voisin and the Functional City Flora Samuel Part III Revisiting the Modern Project: Constructing New Worlds Introduction David Leatherbarrow 13. The Goetheanum Randall Ott 14. Dymaxion House: Ship Shape AnnMarie Brennan 15. Schocken Department Store: “The Art of a Master” Kathleen James-Chakraborty 16. E.1027: The Art of Dialogue Caroline Constant 17. Villa Savoye: Building on a Clear Horizon Richard Wesley 18. Villa Müller: Building Philosophy Christopher Long 19. The VDL Research House Edward R. Ford 20. The PSFS Building: Modern Architecture for the Corporate Client Grace Ong Yan 21. Fallingwater Neil Levine 22. Danteum Jonathan Mekinda 23. Maison du Peuple: The Craft of Industrialized Construction Anne Beim 24. The Villa Mairea Scott Poole Part IV Postwar Trends: Beginning Again, But Not at the Beginning Introduction David Leatherbarrow 25. Endless House William W. Braham 26. Golden Lane: The Design and Urbanism of Megastructures Eric Mumford 27. Pajaritos Chapel, Maipu, Chile Rodrigo Perez de Arce 28. The Naked City: Why Put a Collage in a Book on Modern Architecture? Simon Sadler 29. Brasilia: The Pilot Plan and its Monuments Carlos Eduardo Comas 30. Church of Christ the Worker Stanford Anderson 31. Burgerweeshuis Orphanage: A CIty-like House Nathaniel Coleman 32. Plan for Tokyo Zhongjie Lin Part V The 1960s and 1970s: Questioning Modern Worlds Introduction Alexander Eisenschmidt 33. Mother’s House Martino Stierli 34. Salk Institute: Hard-won Calm Daniel S. Friedman 35. Brion Cemetery: Between Worlds Michael Cadwell 36. Swimming Pool on the Beach at Leça de Palmeira: The Presence of the Atlantic Ocean Christian Gänshirt 37. Walking City: Archigram and the Pursuit of Style Sarah Deyong 38. Kharga Market: From Vernacularism to Regionalism Hassan Radoine 39. Marie Short House Maryam Gusheh and Catherine Lassen 40. Centre Pompidou Hadas A. Steiner 41. Teatro del Mondo Mary Lou Lobsinger 42. Sangath Kazi Khaleed Ashraf Part VI The Present Generation: Engaging the Contemporary World Introduction Alexander Eisenschmidt 43. Parc de la Villette and its Afterlife Julia Czerniak 44. Stone House: Between the Human and the Non-human Philip Ursprung 45. The Church of the Light Jin Baek 46. Kunsthal: The Pliable Surface Roberto Gargiani 47. Bilbao Guggenheim: A Secular Cathedral of Art Richard M. Sommer 48. Yokohama: International Passenger Terminal Helene Furján 49. Sendai Mediatheque: The Fifth Plan Ron Witte 50. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Xavier Costa Index

About the Author :
Harry Francis Mallgrave, Hon FRIBA, is  Distinguished Professor Emeritus,  Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design (2013). His books published with Wiley Blackwell include Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870, Volume 1 (2005), Architectural Theory: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005, Volume 2 (edited with Christina Contandriopoulos, 2008), The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (2011), and An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present (with David Goodman, 2011). Volume I: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, Edited by Alina Payne, Harvard University Volume II: Eighteenth-Century Architecture, Edited by Caroline van Eck, Cambridge University, and Sigrid de Jong, Leiden University Volume III: Nineteenth-Century Architecture, Edited by Martin Bressani, McGill University, and Christina Contandriopoulos, Université du Québec à Montréal Volume IV: Twentieth-Century Architecture, Edited by David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, and Alexander Eisenschmidt, University of Illinois at Chicago