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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This landmark anthology surveys the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper. It is the first volume to make available in one place the major statements in English, German, French, and Italian that constructed architecture as a field. In charting the progress of architecture from its earliest days until the second half of the nineteenth century, Mallgrave brings together over 200 classic essays in the field. These cover Classicism, the Gothic period, Neoclassicism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and major themes including industry, ornament, style, and tectonics. Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 - along with the forthcoming second volume, covering 1870 to 2000 - is an indispensable reference for any student or scholar of architecture. Organized thematically, it features general and section introductions and headnotes to each essay written by a renowned expert on architectural theory. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Classicism and the Renaissance . A. 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 Kings. 6. 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 6. 13. Leon Battista Alberti. from De re aedificatoria, Book 9. 14. Il Filarete. from Book I of untitled treatise on architecture (1461-3). 15. Il Filarete. from Book VIII of untitled treatise on architecture. 16. 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 Britain . A. French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns. Introduction. 23. René Descartes. from Regulae ad Directionen Ingenii (1628). 24....
