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1	The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi more books like this by Professor George L Hersey add to wishlist By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a classical theory about the origin and meaning of the orders, one that links them to ancient sacrificial ritual and myth. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $14.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry more books like this by David Watkin, H R H the Prince of Wales (Foreword by) add to wishlist Often described as Prince Charles's favorite architect, Quinlan Terry is at home in every traditional style, from Classical Greek to Roman, Gothic to Renaissance, and Baroque to Neo-classical. With intense new interest in classical design, there is a high demand for a compilation of Terry's work, a volume that showcases the ideas and creations of ... see all copies from $14.22! new only from $36.72! \| first editions
3	Palladio and Palladianism more books like this by Mr. Robert Tavernor add to wishlist Robert Tavernor looks at Palladianism in terms of its meaning, and sees it as part of the history of ideas. Here, architecture is returned to its place as the art that embodies values. see all copies from $6.93! new only from $20.96!
4	The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture more books like this by Drew Donald Egbert, Donald D Egbert, David Van Zanten (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $22.79! new only from $37.49!
5	John Russell Pope more books like this by Steven McLeod Bedford, Jonathan Wallen (Photographer), Professor William L MacDonald (Introduction by) add to wishlist Architectural historian Steven M. Bedford presents this biographical survey of one of America's fundamental classical architects, John Russell Pope. Most of the projects featured here date from 1910 to 1937, and many rank among the most important historical buildings in their respective countries: the National Gallery of Art and the National ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
6	Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms more books like this by James Steven Curl add to wishlist This book defines classical architecture in all its manifestations, from Graeco-Roman antiquity, through its re-working during the Renaissance, the inventiveness of Baroque and Rococo, the rediscovery of antiquity, to the various phases of late classicism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It also explores the language of classical ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $22.39! \| SVS
7	Andrea Palladio more books like this by Aurora Cuito (Editor), Cristina Montes (Editor), Andrea Palladio add to wishlist Each volume in this series highlights the work of an architect or artist from history. Featuring four-colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, detailed plans, layouts and brief, comprehensive texts, the books are intended to provide an easy reference for work, school or leisure. see all copies from $2.48! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny more books like this by Professor William L MacDonald add to wishlist The Pantheon in Rome is one of the grand architectural statements of all ages. This richly illustrated book isolates the reasons for its extraordinary impact on Western architecture, discussing the Pantheon as a building in its time but also as a building for all time. Mr. MacDonald traces the history of the structure since its completion and ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life more books like this by T C Barnard (Editor) add to wishlist The importance of the third earl of Burlington (1695-1753) as a patron and practitioner of the arts, especially of architecture, has long been recognised. Indeed he has been credited with sponsoring and engineering the Palladian revival in England. Despite his fame, surprisingly little has been written about him. This book presents a modern ... see all copies from $6.96! new only from $6.96!
10	Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition more books like this by Giles Worsley add to wishlist In this ground-breaking volume, the first book-length study for forty years on one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects, conventional assumptions about Inigo Jones are turned on their head. Traditionally, Jones has been looked upon as an isolated, even old-fashioned, figure in European architecture, still espousing the ... see all copies from $41.93! new only from $42.44! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture more books like this by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling add to wishlist New Classicism provides an in-depth look at a form of design that appeared lost forever with the rise of modernism in architecture. But now, with an intense revival of interest in classical design, and with the demise in popularity of the subsequent postmodernism, new vigor has infused traditional forms and motifs. Focusing on approximately thirty ... see all copies from $14.39! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies more books like this by Cynthia C Davidson (Editor) add to wishlist In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis -- both celebratory and critical -- of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, based in southern France, represent two opposing views in architecture: the modern and the ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $8.98! \| SVS
13 view cover	Arthur Brown Jr. Progressive Classicist more books like this by Jeffrey T Tilman add to wishlist Celebrated by his peers for such masterpieces as San Francisco's City Hall, Arthur Brown Jr. epitomised the idea that architecture not only houses society's daily rituals and defining events, but also shapes the socio-political landscape of a country. This is a fascinating look at the man - captivated by the classical movement and obsessed with ... see all copies from $35.67! new only from $36.03! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	J. Neel Reid, Architect: Of Hentz, Reid & Adler and the Georgia School of Classicists more books like this by William R Mitchell, James R Lockhart (Photographer) add to wishlist For Neel Reid and this book we must think back seventy years and more, to another time -- of porte cocheres and sleeping porches, French doors and parterre gardens, trellises and pergolas, porticoes and fanlights, summerhouses and servants' quarters -- a time of classic but not antebellum columns, before the Great Depression and World War II. We ... see all copies from $29.99! new only from $34.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	The architecture of the Renaissance in France : a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration, and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 more books like this by William Henry Ward add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16 view cover	Power and Virtue: Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660-1730 more books like this by Li Shiqiao add to wishlist This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. "Power and Virtue" articulately engages English ... see all copies from $42.49! new only from $42.49!
17 view cover	Juan de Herrera: Architect to Philip II of Spain more books like this by Catherine Wilkerson Zerner, Catherine Wilkinson-Zerner add to wishlist In the second half of the 16th century, Philip II of Spain set out to use the revenues of the richest state in the world to create buildings worthy of his Habsburg inheritance and he chose a young and inexperienced gentleman soldier, Juan de Herrera, to be his principle architect. The remarkable partnership between the king and Herrera - courtier, ... see all copies from $41.00! new only from $52.00!
18 view cover	Classical Modern Architecture more books like this by Andreas Papadakis, A Papadakkes add to wishlist A concise historical survey with examples from classical Greece through the Italian Renaissance, European Neoclassicism, and Scandinavian design up to the present-day traditional habitat. see all copies from $3.80! new only from $40.89! \| first editions
19	Wren's London more books like this by Colin Amery add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $84.95! \| first editions
20	Quinlan Terry more books like this by Quinlan Terry add to wishlist The complete works and writings of this influential architect, one of the foremost Classical revivalists of the late 20th century, are assembled here in chronological order along the lines of Palladio's "Quattro Libri". The projects and texts provide a guide to Terry's development from a young apprentice with Raymond Erith to his recent work in ... see all copies from $52.29! new only from $95.00!
21 view cover	Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France more books like this by Wittman Richard, Dick Wittman, Richard Wittman add to wishlist This book offers the first study of how architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere. Depicting architecture's passage into a mediatized public culture as an historic turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of a changing configuration of individual, ... see all copies from $133.39! new only from $133.39!
22	The Architecture of Wren more books like this by Kerry Downes add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	Quinlan Terry: 2the Revival of Architecture more books like this by Mr. Clive Aslet add to wishlist 280X210MM.240PP.RESUBMIT WHEN HAZELMERE SPONSORSHIP POSITION CLARIFIED. 26/3/86--3000X828.63PX$40.00(COST INC.PACKING IN PLAIN SLIPCASES). see all copies from $71.96! first editions
24 view cover	Classical Architecture for the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction to Design more books like this by J Francois Gabriel add to wishlist By a graduate of the ecole des Beaux-Arts, this is an approachable, thorough, informative guide to the theory and technique of designing classical buildings. Generously illustrated, it gives a lively, contemporary reality to what can seem a remote subject. see all copies from $31.69! new only from $31.69! \| SVS
25	Francois Mansart: Le Genie de L'Architecture more books like this by Francois Mansart add to wishlist see all copies from $145.00! new only from $145.00! \| first editions

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