Classical Language of Architecture

Name: Classical Language of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262690126

ISBN-10: 0262690128

ISBN-13: 9780262690126

Edition: 1963 (Revised)

Authors: John Summerson

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1963
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/15/1966
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 8.88" wide x 7.25" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface



The Essentials of Classicism



The Grammar of Antiquity



Sixteenth-Century Linguistics



The Rhetoric of the Baroque



The Light of Reason - and of Archaeology



Classical into Modern


Glossary


Notes on the Literature of Classical Architecture


Plates