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British Architectural Theory 1540-1750

British Architectural Theory 1540-1750 shows the variety, scope and originality of architectural thought in early modern England. This is the first collection of English writing on architecture from this period to be published in a modern, accessible edition. The texts included here offer practical advice on how to build a country house, farm or fortress, how to select building materials and how to draw or survey, but they also discuss the nature of architecture, the sense of the past, church building, and the social, political and religious meaning of architecture. They also reveal a very independent spirit of inquiry into the principles of classical design. Authors include well-known writers such as Inigo Jones, John Evelyn, or Sir Christopher Wren, but also some writers who are not usually associated with architectural theory, such as John Donne, Henry Hawkins or Walter Montague, who nonetheless have a lot to tell us about the ways in which architecture was perceived.

The transmission of ideas through illustration is an important feature of architectural theory and the book is illustrated with 30 seminal images. All fragments are introduced and annotated. Substantial endnotes and an extensive bibliography for further reading complete the book providing an invaluable resource for students and teachers as well as equipping the general reader with an accessible introduction to the key issues of British architectural theory in this period.

Caroline van Eck is a Senior Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where she directs a research program on the role of rhetoric in the visual arts and architecture funded by the Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO), and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York. She has published widely on architectural theory of the nineteenth century and the Renaissance. Publications include Organicism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture: An Inquiry into its Theoretical and Philosophical Background (Amsterdam 1994); The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts (Cambridge 1995), and articles on Renaissance architectural theory for Renaissance Studies and The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. With Ashgate she has also published the first English edition of Germain Boffrand's Book of Architecture (2002).

British Architectural Theory 154.0-1750: An Anthology of Texts
is published in the series
Reinterpreting Classicism: Culture, Reaction and Appropriation
Edited by Caroline van Eck, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

IN THE SAME SERIES

Producing the Past
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850
Edited by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz
Preface by Stephen Bann

Sir John Soane and the Country Estate
Ptolemy Dean

Building on Ruins
The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture
Frank Salmon

Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa
Edited by Bernard D. Frischer and Iain Gordon Brown

The Built Surface, Volume 1
Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Edited by Christy Anderson

The Art of Building
From Classicism to Modernity:
The Dutch Architectural Debate 1840-1900
Auke van der Wond

Germain Boffrand
Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations and Sections of Some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries
Edited and introduced by Caroline van Eck
Translated by David Britt

British Architectural Theory 1540-1750

An Anthology of Texts

Edited by Caroline van Eck
with contributions by Christy Anderson

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright Caroline van Eck 2003

The author has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer
The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact.

A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 2002074720

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-71072-6 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-315-19920-7 (ebk)

Typeset in Palatino by Manton Typesetters, Louth, Lincolnshire, UK

Contents

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Guide

This book was originally conceived as a joint project with Christy Anderson at Yale. Unfortunately she was unable to continue working on it after its initial stages, but I am very grateful to her for her contributions, and for opening some doors at Yale. The earlier stages of the research were carried out at the Yale Center for British Art and the Beinecke Library. I am very grateful to the BAC for giving me a Visiting Fellowship, and to the staff of both institutions for their support. In particular, I would like to thank Susan Brady, the Head of the Reference Library at the BAC for her keen interest in the progress of this book. Both institutions were very generous in providing images. Andrew Drabkin gave much time and effort at a crucial phase of the preparations at Yale. The staff of the Warburg Institute, British Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Library in The Hague and the Print Room of the University at Leiden were very helpful in providing illustrations and finding rare material, both published and in manuscript.

Without Eileen Harris and Nicholas Savage's British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785 and Howard Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 this book could not have been written. David Watkin offered very thorough criticism of an earlier version. Lucy Gent made me question all my assumptions about architectural theory and classicism in England, and was uncommonly generous in her searching criticism of earlier stages of the book. I profited very much from conversations with Anthony Geraghty, Vaughan Hart, Lex Hermans, Derek Matravers, Sophie Ploeg, Nicholas Savage, Edward Winters, Richard Tucker, Auke van der Woud and Chris Wood. My colleagues and students at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam offered a very stimulating environment in which to test out the ideas and arguments behind this project.

The Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) generously supported this project. At Ashgate, Alan Bartram, Helen Hodge, Maureen Street and Kirsten Weissenberg took great care over design and copy-editing. Maureen Street in particular has greatly improved the consistency, clarity and user-friendliness of the book. Pamela Edwardes, Ashgate's commissioning editor in art history, took great interest in the project from its earliest stages and watched over its completion in every possible way, providing astute comment and very generous support at every stage.

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