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