Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth
Ashgate
Hardback
306
2006
Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the eighteenth century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude easy classification, such as the prolonged discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises.
Ashgate
Hardback
306
2006
Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the eighteenth century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude easy classification, such as the prolonged discussions on church architecture, which are both in form and content very different from the way that theme was handled in Italian Renaissance treatises.