This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of classical architecture in itself.
Classical Architecture: Rule and Invention
In Classical Architecture Robert Adam traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications.
This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures.
Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms
Can an the classical speak to the pluralist age? In a series of informative and critical essays, Demetri Porphyrios emphatically asserts that traditional architecture has always had an indubitable and...
This book defines classical architecture in all its manifestations, from Graeco-Roman antiquity, through its re-working during the Renaissance, the inventiveness of Baroque and Rococo, the rediscovery of antiquity, to the...