A history of architectural theory : from Vitruvius to the present / Hanno-Walter Kruft.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Foreword to the English edition -- Introduction: What is architectural theory? -- 1. Vitruvius and architectural theory in Antiquity -- 2. The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- 3. Leone Battista Alberti -- 4. Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- 5. Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance -- 6. Sixteenth-century codification -- 7. Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- 8. The counter-Reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicism -- 9. The theory of fortification -- 10. France in the sixteenth century -- 11. The Classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France -- 12. The foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- 13. Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture -- 14. Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- 15. The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 16. The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- 17. Eighteenth-century views of Antiquity -- 18. The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- 19. Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- 20. Concepts of the garden -- 21. Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- 22. Germany in the nineteenth century -- 23. England in the nineteenth century -- 24. The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School -- 25. Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945 -- 26. France: 1900-1945 -- 27. Italy: Futurism and Rationalism -- 28. The Soviet Union -- 29. The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- 30. Since 1945 -- Notes (including texts of quotations in the original language) -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Supplement to the Bibliography -- English-language translations of sources -- Index of names.