Concerning Architecture: Essays on Architectural Writers and Writing Presented to Nikolaus PevsnerAubrey's Chronologia architectonica / H.M. Colvin -- Attitudes to Elizabethan architecture, 1600-1900 / Mark Girouard -- John Evelyn and architecture: a first inquiry / Kerry Downes -- French eighteenth-century opinion on Wren / R.D. Middleton -- English country house guides, 1740-1840 / John Harris -- A 'retrospective view' by John Clerk of Eldin, with some comments on Adam's castle style / John Fleming -- Richard Payne Knight and the idea of modernity / S. Lang -- John Britton and the genesis of the gothic revival / J. Mordaunt Crook -- The sources of Pugin's Contrasts / Phoebe Stanton -- James Fergusson / Maurice Craig -- Nineteenth-century architectural periodicals / Frank Jenkins -- W.R. Lethaby / P. Ferriday -- Ruskin and American architecture, or regeneration long delayed / Henry-Russell Hitchcock -- Street's Yorkshire churches and contemporary criticism / Basil F.L. Clarke and John Piper -- The writings of William White / Paul Thompson -- Architectural touring with the little guides / Alec Clifton-Taylor -- Architectural criticism in the nineteen-thirties / J.M. Richards -- On architectural journalism / Hugh Casson -- Revenge of the picturesque: English architectural polemics, 1945-1965 / Reyner Banham. |
Contents
Attitudes to Elizabethan Architecture 16001900 | 11 |
A First Inquiry | 28 |
French EighteenthCentury Opinion on Wren | 40 |
Copyright | |
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