The Emergence of Modern Architecture

A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810

Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781134509980
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Illustration Sources
• Preface
• The Structure of Change: Co-Revolutions, Roots and Emergence of Modern Architecture
• Leo of Naples (Late Tenth Century): ‘Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle’, Alexander Romance (Late Tenth Century)
• Adelhard (1055–1082): Account of the Abbey of Saint-Trond (1057)
• Baudri, Bishop of Dol (Unknown): Description of Fécamp (c.1110)
• Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096–1141): Didascalicon (Late 1120s)
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153): Strong Words to William (c.1125)
• Anonymous: The Marvels of the City of Rome (c.1143)
• Abbot Suger (1081–1151): On the Consecration of the Church of Saint Denis (1144)
• Abbot Suger (1081–1151): On Matters of Administration (1144–1149)
• Robert of Clari (c.1170–After 1216): The Conquest of Constantinople (1216)
• Villard de Honnecourt: Sketchbook (1225–1250)
• Albrecht von Scharfenberg (?–?): The Young Titurel (c.1270)
• Marco Polo (1254–1324), Rustichello of Pisa (?–?) and Others: The Travels of Marco Polo (Late Thirteenth Century)
• Dante (Alighieri): Inferno (c.1306–1309)
• (Francesco) Petrarch (1307–1374): The Ascent of Mount Ventoux (April 26, 1342)
• Anonymous: Annals of the Duomo of Milan (1400, 1401)
• Christine de Pisan (c.1363–1431): The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats (c.1410)
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): Book of the Family (c.1428)
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): On Painting (1435–1436)
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): On Building (Written 1440s–1450; Published 1485)
• Antonio Averlino, Called Filarete (c.1400–1469): Treatise On Architecture (1451–1464)
• Francesco Colonna (Generally Attributed): Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Completed 1467; Published 1499)
• Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501): Treatises On Civil and Military Architecture (Written 1474–1482)
• Leonardo da Vinci. ‘Studies of Fortification’: Codex Atlanticus, c.1504
• Luca Pacioli: De Divina Proportione, 1509
• Raphael (Sanzio) (1482–1520): Letter to Pope Leo X (1519)
• Cesare Cesariano (1483–1543): Translation of Vitruvius’s Ten Books On Architecture (1521)
• Francesco Giorgi (Or Zorzi) (?–?): Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna (1535)
• Albrecht Dürer: Etliche Unterricht Unterweisung der Messung Befestigung der Statt, Schloss und Flecken, 1527
• Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1564): The Books On Architecture (1537–1575)
• Pietro di Cataneo: I Quattro primi libri di architettura, 1554
• Francesco de Marchi: Dell ’Architettura militare, 1599
• Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574): Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550)
• Giovan Battista Bellucci (1506–1554): New Inventions for Making Fortresses of Various Forms (Completed c.1554; Published 1598)
• Daniele Barbaro (1516–1570): Translation of Vitruvius’s Ten Books (1556)
• Pirro Ligorio (1510–1583): Book of Antiquity (Late 1550s)
• Philibert de l’Orme (1510–1570): New Inventions for Building Economically (1561)
• Bernard Palissy (c.1510–1589): True Recipe By Which the People of France Will Be Able to Multiply Their Fortunes. Also the Design and Ordonnance of a Fortified City That Is the Most Unassailable Ever Heard of (1563)
• Alvise Cornaro (1475–1566): Treatise On Architecture (1567–1575 Written)
• Philibert de l’Orme (1510–1570): The First Volume of Architecture (1567–1648)
• Andrea Palladio (1508–1580): The Four Books of Architecture (1570)
• Jean Martin: Architecture ou Art de bien bâtir de Vitruve Pollion, 1574
• Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau: Les Plus excellents bastiments de France, 1576–1579
• Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola: Prospettiva, 1583: Cinque Ordini, 1563
• Antonio Rusconi: Dell’Architettura, 1590
• Domenico Fontana: Della Transportione dell’obelisco Vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore Papa Sisto, 1590
• Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538–1600): The Idea of the Temple of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1590)
• El Greco (Domenico Theotocopoulos) (1541–1614): Marginalia to Daniele Barbaro’s Translation of Vitruvius (c.1591)
• Jacques Perret: Des Fortifications et artifices, architecture et perspective, 1601
• Federigo Zuccaro (1543–1609): The Idea of Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1608)
• Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616): Of the Idea of Universal Architecture (1615)
• Daniel Speckle: Architectura, 1589
• Teofilo Gallaccini (1564–1641): Treatise On the Errors of the Architects (Written 1621; Published 1767)
• Ben Jonson (1572–1637): Neptune’s Triumph (1624)
• Pierre Le Muet: Manière de bien bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes, 1623
• Joseph Furttenbach: Architectura Universalis, 1635
• Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639): Elements of Architecture (1624)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Younger (1568–1646): Untitled Draft of a Letter to Pope Urban VIII About the Palazzo Barberini In Rome (c.1625)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626): ‘On Building’ (1625), The Essays (1597–1625)
• René Descartes (1596–1650): Discourse On Method (1637)
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642): Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
• André Félibien: Description de la grotte de Versailles, 1676
• Georg Andreas Böckler: Architectura Curiosa Nova, 1664
• Roland Fréart de Chambray (1602–?): Parallel of Antique and Modern Architecture (1650)
• Count Emanuele Tesauro (1591–1675): The Aristotelian Telescope (1654)
• Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695): Account of a Trip to the Limousin (1663)
• Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1615–1696): Idea of the Painter, Sculptor, and Architect Chosen from the Superior Natural Beauty of Nature (Written 1664; Published 1672)
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683): Observations On the Plans and Elevations of the Façade of the Louvre (1664–1665) and Letter to Louis XIV (28 September 1665)
• Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723): Surveyor’s Report On the Condition of St Paul’s Cathedral (1666)
• Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723): Surveyor’s Report On the Condition of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1669)
• Jean Dominique Cassini (1625–1712): The Manuscript of the Anecdotes of the Life of J.D. Cassini (Written c.1669; Published 1810)
• Vincent Sablon (1619–1693): History of the August and Venerable Church of Chartres (1671)
• André Félibien (1619–1695): Description of the Grotto of Versailles (1672)
• Jean Le Paultre (1618–1682): Recueil Général du Chasteau de Versailles, 1677
• Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723): Tracts On Architecture (1670s)
• Claude Perrault (1613–1688): The Ten Books of Vitruvius, Corrected and Translated With Notes and Figures (1673)
• François Blondel (1617–1686): Lessons of Architecture (1675)
• Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1606–1682): Civil Architecture, Orthogonal and Oblique (1678)
• Guarino Guarini (1624–1683): Civil Architecture (Written After 1678; Published 1737)
• Sébastien le Prêtre, seigneur de Vauban (1633–1707): Letter to Louvois (1681)
• Anonymous: L’Architecture militaire (?)
• Antoine Desgodetz (1653–1728): The Antique Buildings of Rome (1682)
• Claude Perrault (1613–1688): The Ordonnance of the Five Species of Columns (1683)
• Sir William Temple (1628–1699): The Gardens of Epicurus (Written 1685; Published 1692)
• Robert de Cotte (1656–1735): Journey to Italy (1689)
• Charles Augustin D’Aviler (1653–1701): Lessons of Architecture (1691)
• Charles-Augustin d’Aviler: Cours d’architecture, 1691
• Jean-François Félibien des Avaux (1658–1733): Dissertation Touching Upon Ancient Architecture and Gothic Architecture (1699)
• François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (1651–1715): The Adventures of Télémaque (1699)
• Michel de Frémin (?–?): A Critical Report On Architecture, Containing the True and False Architecture (1702)
• Abbé Jean-Louis de Cordemoy (1631–1713): Extract from a Letter By the Author . . . To the Remarks of M. Frézier, Ingénieur Ordinaire du Roy, Proffered In the Journal de Trévoux In the Month of September 1709 (1710)
• Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713): Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719): The Spectator (1712)
• Stephan Switzer: Ichnographia, 1718
• J.A. Corvinus: Marly-le-Roi, Mid-Seventeenth Century
• Andrea Pozzo: Perspective Pictorum et Architectorum, 1693–1700
• Le père Bernard de Montfaucon: L’Antiquité expliquée, 1716
• Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723): Outline of a Historical Architecture (1721)
• Daniel Defoe (1660–1731): A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1727)
• Jean Courtonne (1671–1739): Treatise On Perspective With Some Remarks On Architecture (1725)
• Robert Castell (d. 1729): The Villas of the Ancients (1728)
• Batty Langley (1696–1751): New Principles of Gardening (1728)
• Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier: Oeuvres (1723–1735)
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744): Moral Essays: Epistle to Lord Burlington (1731)
• John Searle: Plan of Pope’s Garden At Twickenham (1745)
• Robert Morris (1701–1754): Lectures On Architecture (1736)
• Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773): The Theory and Practice of Stone Cutting and Wood Working (1737–1739)
• Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773): A Theoretical and Critical Dissertation On the Orders of Architecture (1738)
• Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780): A Report On Gothic Architecture (Written 1741)
• Charles-Etienne Briseux: L’art de bâtir les maisons de campagne (1743–1761)
• Gabriel-Germain Boffrand (1667–1754): Book of Architecture (1745)
• Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689–1755): An Essay On Taste (1748)
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774): French Architecture (1752–1757)
• Giovanni Poleni: Memorie istoriche della gran cupola del Tempio Vaticano, 1748
• William Hogarth (1697–1764): The Analysis of Beauty (1753)
• Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713–1769): Essay On Architecture (1753)
• William Hogarth: The Analysis of Beauty, 1753
• Charles Nicolas Cochin: ‘Supplication to the Goldsmiths’, Mercure de France (December 1754)
• Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790): ‘On a Very Bad Joke’ (1755)
• Morelly (?–?): The Code of Nature (1755)
• Count Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764): Essay (1756)
• Sir William Chambers: Designs for Chinese Buildings (1726–1796)
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797): Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas On the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757)
• Julien David Le Roy (1724–1803): The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758, Revised 1770)
• Count Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764): Letter to a Gentleman In Venice (1759)
• Alexander Gérard (1728–1795): An Essay On Taste (1759)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Carceri d’invenzione, 1760
• Sir William Chambers (1723–1796): A Treatise On Civil Architecture (1759)
• T.-N. Loyer (?–?): Follow-Up On My First Dissertation On How to Decorate Apartments (1762)
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768): Remarks On the Architecture of the Ancients (1762)
• Robert Adam: Ruins of the Palace . . . At Spalatro, 1764
• Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713–1769): Observations On Architecture (1765)
• Denis Diderot (1713–1784): ‘My Say On Architecture’, ‘A Brief Corollary On What Went Before’ In Essais sur la Peinture (Written 1766?; Published 1793)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778): Diverse Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys (1769)
• Pierre Patte (1723–1804): A Report On the Most Important Objects In Architecture (1769)
• Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790): Letter from an Architectural Engraver to Monsieur Patte (1770)
• Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814): The Year 2440 (1770)
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774): Lessons On Architecture (Vol. I) (1771)
• Sir James Steuart (1712–1780): Critical Observations On the Buildings and Improvements of London (1771)
• Sir William Chambers (1723–1796): Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (1772)
• Sir William Chambers (1723–1796): Letter to a Gentleman Who Had Objected to Certain Parts of His Treatise On Oriental Gardening (1772)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832): On German Architecture (1772)
• Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786): Essay On Gardens (1774)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1776–1778)
• Jean Marie Morel (1728–1810): Theory of Gardens (1776)
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774): Lessons On Architecture . . . Continued By P. Patte (Paris 1777)
• Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (1720–1800): Précis for a Work On Hospitals (1777 Composed; 1787 Published)
• Antoine Petit: Mémoire sur la meilleure manière de bâtir un hôpital de malades (1774)
• B. Seeley: Plan of Stowe Gardens, 1777
• Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721–1789): The Genius of Architecture (1780)
• Francesco Milizia (1725–1798): Principles of Civil Architecture (1781)
• Ribart de Chamoust (?–?): The French Order Found In Nature (1783)
• Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849): On Egyptian Architecture (1785 Composed; 1803 Published)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826): Letter to the Building Committee of the Virginia State Capitol (1786)
• Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794): Report On Hospitals (Written 1786)
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): Panopticon, or the Inspection House (1787)
• Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux (?–1786): Letters On the Architecture of the Ancients and Moderns (1787)
• Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816): Reports On the Hospitals of Paris (1788)
• Reverend William Gilpin (1724–1804): ‘On Picturesque Beauty’, Three Essays (1792)
• Francesco Milizia (1725–1798): Dictionary of the Fine Arts of Design (1797)
• James Malton (?–1803): An Essay On British Cottage Architecture (1798)
• Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799): A Treatise On Architecture (1793–1799)
• Pierre Patte (1723–1814): Critical Analysis of the Construction of the Pantheon Dome (1801)
• Richard Elsam (?–1825): Essay On Rural Architecture (1803)
• Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834): A Precis of the Lessons In Architecture Given At the Polytechnic School (1802–1805)
• Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806): Concerning Architecture Seen from the Point of View of Art, of Morals and Legislation (1804)
• Charles-François Viel (1745–1819): On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure the Solidity of Buildings (1805)
• Francesco Milizia (1725–1798): The Art of Seeing In the Fine Arts (c.1810)
• Gaspar Monge: Géometrie Descriptive, 1811
• Bibliography and References