Although the classical vocabulary was used in British architecture from the
sixteenth century onwards, the term 'classicism' was not used in architectural
theory until the end of the nineteenth century.1 Instead, architects and theorists
spoke of ...
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Author: christy anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351775298
Category: Social Science
Page: 282
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This title was published in 2003.Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude such easy classification, such as the prolonged (but hardly studied) discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises. This collection of English writing on architecture from 1540 to 1750 offers a large selection of fragments, some of them never published before. They discuss the nature of architecture, the practicalities of building, the sense of the past, religious architecture and classicism.