The Classical Language of Architecture
John Summerson
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| ’An easy introduction to both the grammar and the superstructure of classical orders’ | | – The Guardian |
Sir John Summerson's account of classical architecture has every right to be called a classic itself. With the help of diagrams, glossary and a wealth of photographs, the reader is taken easily from the great originals of Greece and Rome through the recapitulations and innovations of the Renaissance, the rhetoric of the Baroque and grave statements of Neo-classicism to the 'stripped Neo-classicism' of the moderns - every age using the classical language to make its own statement. For this edition the volume was completely redesigned and the number of illustrations more than doubled.
Also of interest:
The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century
by Sir John Summerson |
|  |  | | | | Revised and enlarged edition | | ISBN 0500201773 | | ISBN-13 978-0500201770 | | | | 21.0 x 14.9 cm | | Paperback | | 144pp | | 139 illustrations | | First published 1980 | | | | £8.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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