The title “Vocabularium architecturæ ædificatoriæ” could be translated into “Architectur of building architecture”. This book makes it easier for everybody to read or write about architecture. The book is well-ordered from “a” to “z”, like any ordinary dictionary. There aren’t any illustrations for better explanation of words. This would have probably taken up too much…
Les dix livres de vitruve. Corriges et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes et des Figures
Friends with and old book « Les dix livres d’architecture de vitruve. Corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes et des Figures ». That’s the title of the book. According to the title, the book is a translation of the latin original. Furthermore, it’s a correction and some notes are added to it. It’s also dedicated…
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Water and Architecture The full title of the book “Architectura Hydraulica, Oder: Anleitung zu denen Brunnenkünsten” is about architecture with water and instructions for fountain-art. The first part of the title is written in Latin and the second one in German. Considering the author is called Caspar Walter, I assume that his mother tongue was…
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Andreas Albrecht was a German mathematician and engineer. He was the inventor of multiple instruments. He doesn’t really have a design approach rather than a proportional approach. Instrument zur Architectur Damit die fünff Seülen auch aller Sorten Stück und Morsser, sowol allerley Bilder und der gleichen Sachen leicht und recht proportionirt zu vergrössern oder zu…
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“Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto. Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Sarmatica expeditione insignis, ex S.C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta : iterum in lucem prodit”,or in German:“The Cochlis Column, dedicated to M. Aurelius Antonius Augustus, decorated for his achievements in the German and Sarmatian expeditions, erected by S.C. in Rome on…
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La Perspective, Avec la Raison des ombres et miroirs 1612 (The Perspective, With the Reason for Shadows and Mirrors) Author Salomon de Caus About the author Salomon de Caus was an architect- mathematician and and hydraulic engineer. He was famous for his garden design with magnificent waterworks and for his many publications on topics relating…
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François Blondel wrote the book «Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier les places» in 1688. Translated to English, the title of François Blondel’s book means “new way of fortifying places”. If you also take the background of the author into account, he probably wrote the book as a theoretical text about architectural spaces. The author was at…
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The book ”A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening” by William Chambers in 1772, focuses on the ways, mainly, the Chinese built and decorated their gardens in comparison to the western civilisations, who used symmetry and tried to put everything under control. According to his observations the Chinese gardens are made so as to evoke emotions and…
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Friend with an old book Reigle générale d’architecture – Jean Bullant The book that was assigned to me was unfortunately written in a language I don’t understand. In this book the orders of architecture are being explained. It follows the now canonical succession of the five orders, with theoretical models alternating with ancient examples. But…