Author : Steven W Semes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2004-08-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730753
The principles of classical architecture applied to the design of interiors, both residential and public. A practicing architect shows how the elements that constitute the classical interior-wall and ceiling treatments, doors and windows, fireplaces, and stairs-can be composed into rooms satisfying both aesthetic and practical criteria. Historic and contemporary examples illustrate both generic and specific solutions for designers working in the classical tradition today.
Author : Robert Adam
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1991-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
In Classical Architecture Robert Adam traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications.
Author : Johan Cederlund
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393731729
A lavishly illustrated history of Sweden's most significant works of architecture is paired with capsule biographies of many of the region's top contributors, in a volume that includes coverage of such structures as the royal palace of Stockholm and the Pavilion at Haga.
Author : Mark Ferguson
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847835456
This beautifully illustrated volume presents Ferguson & Shamamian's finest work, including new houses, apartments, alterations and additions, and unbuilt design plans.
Author : Phillip James Dodd
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864702036
-A lavish and beautifully illustrated sourcebook of classically inspired architectural detail -A valuable resource for architects, interior designers, builders and home decorators -Featuring a foreword by renowned interior designer David Easton -Highlights projects by US architects including Marc Ferguson & Oscar Shamamian, Peter Pennoyer, Quinlan Terry and Gil Schafer. Features a foreword by David Easton, arguably America's most respected decorator. Contributors also include historians Jeremy Musson and David Watkin. In The Art of Classical Details, classically trained architect Phillip Dodd takes a close-up look at some of the finest examples of neo-classical architecture in the world today. Covering the fundamentals of classical architecture, such as Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite columns, and featuring the work of skilled contemporary classicists, including Julian Bicknell and Ken Tate, The Art of Classical Details is the definitive guide to today's world of neoclassical architectural detailing.
Author : Arthur Stratton
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architectural design
ISBN :
"This book aims to initiate all who are concerned with the design of buildings into first principles of arrangement, irrespective of style, period or fashion, and its scope is deliberately focussed on the most elementary of known forms. The culminating periods of Greek and Roman architecture have here been drawn upon as well as the whole range of matured Renaissance architecture in Europe, and the book has been compiled not only from actual buildings but also from the wider field of projected designs. In the illustrations, all the buildings and motifs are presented in their simplest aspect, free from confusing detail, so that the main lines of the various schemes can be understood at a glance and the different forms compared."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John R. Senseney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 113949726X
This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.
Author : Marianne Cusato
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781402736285
Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right--to the eye and to the soul. She teaches us the language and grammar of classical architecture, revealing how balance, harmony, and detail all contribute to creating a home that will be loved rather than tolerated. And she takes us through the do’s and don’ts of every element of home design, from dormers to doorways to columns. Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings--clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying "avoid” and "use” versions of the same elements side by side.
Author : Alexander Tzonis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262700313
This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, the authors present classical architecture as a coherent system of architectural thinking that is capable of producing a tragic humanistic discourse, a public art with critical, moral, and philosophical meaning.
Author : Demetri Porphyrios
Publisher : Andreas Papadakis Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
A perceptive exploration of the art of building tracing it back to its roots in the ancient world. This is both a pedagogic and critical book with implications for the theory of style history and practice of architecture.
