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Inigo Jones

Biographies & Memoirs

SUMMERSON, John

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

SUMMERSON, J.: GEORGIAN LONDON. LONDON, 1978, 349 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Georgian London

Arts & Photography

Puffin

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.

Architecture in Britain, 1530-1580 (The Yale University Pelican History of Art)

History & Criticism

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Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (Hist of Art)

Sir John Summerson presents a picture of the architectural rebirth that transformed the appearance of London between 1714 and 1830. Considering a wide range of buildings, from those of Adam and Nash to the work of cavalier speculators and reformist legislators, Summerson combines analysis of great and famous structures - Westminister Bridge, the Bank of England and the Horseguards - with a detailed description of the historical circumstances out of which they arose.

Science & Math

Evolution

Mit Pr

The author's purpose is to set out as simply and vividly as possible the exact grammatical workings of an architectural language.
Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically contradict them. Sir Christopher Wren described them as the "Latin" of architecture and the analogy is almost exact. There is the difference, however, that whereas the learning of Latin is a slow and difficult business, the language of classical architecture is relatively simple. It is still, to a great extent, the mode of expression of our urban surroundings, since classical architecture was the common language of the western world till comparatively recent times. Anybody to whom architecture makes a strong appeal has probably already discovered something of its grammar for himself. 
In this book, the author's purpose is to set out as simply and vividly as possible the exact grammatical workings of this architectural language. He is less concerned with its development in Greece and Rome than with its expansion and use in the centuries since the Renaissance. He explains the vigorous discipline of "the orders" and the scope of "rustication"; the dramatic deviations of the Baroque and, in the last chapter, the relationship between the classical tradition and the "modern" architecture of today. The book is intended for anybody who cares for architecture but more specifically for students beginning a course in the history of architecture, to whom a guide to the classical rules will be an essential companion.

The Classical Language of Architecture

Architecture

The MIT Press

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Yale University Press

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.

Architecture in Britain: 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

History

Europe

Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones's life and career, cleared away the myths of attribution that surrounded his work, and reassigned to him projects that had disappeared from his oeuvre. Summerson's classic text is enhanced by a foreword and notes by Sir Howard Colvin, an updated bibliography, and improved illustrations.

Inigo Jones (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Paul Mellon Centre BA

Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones’s life and career, cleared away the myths of attribution that surround his work, and reassigned to him projects that had disappeared from his oeuvre. Summerson’s classic text is enhanced by a new foreword and notes by Howard Colvin, updated bibliography, and improved illustrations.

Paul Mellon Centre

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Inigo Jones

Georgian London

Architecture in Britain, 1530-1580 (The Yale University Pelican History of Art)

Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (Hist of Art)

Georgian London

The Classical Language of Architecture

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Architecture in Britain: 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Inigo Jones (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Inigo Jones