Pierre le Muet – Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes (1623, Paris) Language: French This page contains a very detailed study of a typology of wooden roof. What I really like about this page are the accuracy and clarity of the illustration, which show exactly all the different parts of the roof. I…
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Author: Vignola Title: Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura
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Marie-Joseph Peyre, Oeuvres d’architecture Ich habe diese beiden Seiten gewählt, da sie die grössten und detailreichsten Abbildungen enthielten und man sich somit das Gebäude am besten vorstellen konnte. Von der Grösse und Dicke unterscheidet sich das Buch kaum von einem zeitgenössischen Bildband, mit was es sich jedoch am meisten abhebt, sind die Seiten, welche sich…
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title: Architectura militaris author: Andreas Cellarius The reason why I chose these two pages are the comments from the author. You can see the handwriting in red color. meeting with the book the book itself The book is large, thick & it has a new cover. It has several signs of use (e.g., stains, missing…
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Author: Teofilo Gallacini Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti, 1767 I chose these two pages, since they, for one part, show the text was arranged in a way to differ between normal text and special paragraphs and on the second part, to how careful the drawings were made. In the image above,…
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Carlo D’Aquino – vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae I chose the titel page because it is the first page that stood out to me and because of it’s interesting composition. The second page (p. 153) captured me with it’s small but detailed print at the bottom. Amazingly the print was even cleaner and better conserved in the…
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Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), Topographia Galliae, vol.1 (1655) This is a beautiful title page, ilustrated by the son (Caspar Merian) of the Swiss-German engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian. The picture shows two important kings: on the left – the Frankish King Clovis I., who subjugated the last Roman ruler in Gaul – later France. On the…
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Author: James Gibbs Pubblication date: London, 1736 I chose the first image for its interesting arrangement of characters, and the second for the precision and accuracy of the drawing. What particularly struck me about the physical book, apart from the colour of the cover which is very similar to a painting, was its ‘roughness’, very…