“Ruins of the palace of the emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia” was first published in 1764. During the time of publishing, the author Robert Adam was the “Architect of the King’s Work”, responsible for the building and maintenance of the royal castles and residences. A few years before, during his Grand Tour, Adam visited…
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The book “Reigle générale d’Architecture des cinq manières de colonnes” was written by Master Jean Bullant, ordinary architect of the Constable Anne de Montmorency at that time. This book deals with the five ways of building, namely, Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. It is also enriched with several other examples from Antiquity. All this…
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The book “Anderer Versuch seiner Architect” is written in the 18th century by Johan Rudolph Fäsch, an igenieur and architect of that time. He was also a Saxon military and he had token part of some wars. He probably wanted to write this book to spread his knowledge and his ideas, but maybe also to inspire someone…
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I started my research with the Title “Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de’Romani”, wich translated means, “about the splendor and architecture of the romans”, which by itself didn’t tell me much so I continued with more general research. Finding out the exact content of the book, 1 Portrait., 2 engraved title pages, 38 folded copper prints,…
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The book “Designs of Inigo jones and Others” was first published in 1731 by English architect Isaac Ware (1704-1766). After his studies in the field of architecture Ware became a member of the St. Martin’s Lane academy, which helped shape the English Rococo movement. Isaac Ware worked mostly for private patrons, building lavish houses, but…
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The title “architecture pratique” already says a lot about the content and main function of the book. The work primarily dealt with the problems of measuring, calculating and billing construction services and thus differed from the usual contemporary architectural literature. Bullet also tried himself in first structural investigations in terms of earth pressure und roof…
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Gabriel Aeschimann HS21ArgumentExtraordinario libro, Sebastiano Serlio The book by Sebastiano Serlio consists mainly of pictures. These show many different ways to design portals or entrances. The book was published in Italian in Lyon in 1551. It was published by the famous printer and publisher Jean de Tournes. A year later, he published a book by…
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The title of the book is “nouvelle manière de fortifier les places”, which is already quite revealing; It seems to be a kind of guide for architects (and probably warlords, too) on how to successfully design war-proof architecture. Maybe even architecture that might you a war or battle. It seems to reveal some kind of…
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The title “Opera di Francesco Borromino “ reveals what kind of building the book will talk about. We know that we will see pictures of an opera, which was a religious building back then. Furthermore the title explains that the Opera is referred to a man called Francesco Borromino. We can assume that he either…