Books in the The Classical Tradition in Architecture series

Presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as hovels of labouring poor - in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. This book shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to theories of the image.

Offers a fresh perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. This book probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theater, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography. It is suitable for historians of art and the built environment.

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. This title offers a study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. It is intended for an academic readership in history.

Provides a record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century. This book analyses the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the Renaissance times.

Offers an exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. This book is arranged in historical periods - from Antiquity to the modern era - and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design.

Adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. This book describes early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture.

Offers a study of how architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere. This book depicts architecture's passage into a mediatized public culture as an historic turning point. It is suitable for readers in discipline of architectural history.

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503-13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each chapter focuses on a particular project, from the Palazzo dei Tribunali to the Stanza della Segnatura, and examines their topographical and symbolic contexts in relationship to the broader vision of Julian Rome. This original work explores not just historical sources relating to buildings but also humanist/antiquarian texts, papal sermons/eulogies, inscriptions, frescoes and contemporary maps. An important contribution to current scholarship of early sixteenth century Rome, its urban design and architecture.