Recommended Reading
General Works on Classical Architecture
Adam, Robert. Classical Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Alberti,LeonBattista. De Re Aedificatoria (1452). Published in English as On the Art of Building. Translated by Joseph Rykwert et. al. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Curtis, Nathaniel. Architectural Composition.Cleveland: J. H. Jansen, 1926.
Edwards, Trystan. Architectural Style. London: Faber and Gower, 1926.
Gabriel, Jean-Francois. Classical Architecture for the Twenty-first Century. W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Gromort, Georges. Choix d’elements empruntes a l’architecture classique. Paris, 1920. Published in English as The Elements of Classical Architecture. Translated by Henry Hope Reed, Steven W. Semes and Franscois J. Gabriel.New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. This edition includes added photographs, essays by Henry Hope Reed, Richard Franklin Sammons and Steven W. Semes, and additional material documenting American work in the tradition of Gromort.
Gwilt, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Architecture. London: 1867. Reprinted,New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.
General Works on Classical Architecture
Adam, Robert. Classical Architecture. New York:OxfordUniversity Press, 1990.
Alberti, LeonBattista. De Re Aedificatoria (1452). Published in English as On the Art of Building. Translated by Joseph Rykwert et. al.Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Curtis, Nathaniel. Architectural Composition.Cleveland: J. H. Jansen, 1926.
Edwards, Trystan. Architectural Style. London: Faber and Gower, 1926.
Gabriel, Jean-Francois. Classical Architecture for the Twenty-first Century. W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Gromort, Georges. Choix d’elements empruntes a l’architecture classique. Paris, 1920. Published in English as The Elements of Classical Architecture. Translated by Henry Hope Reed, Steven W. Semes and Franscois J. Gabriel.New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. This edition includes added photographs, essays by Henry Hope Reed, Richard Franklin Sammons and Steven W. Semes, and additional material documenting American work in the tradition of Gromort.
Gwilt, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Architecture. London: 1867. Reprinted,New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.
Krier, Leon. Architecture: Choice or Fate.London: Andreas Papadakis, 1998.
Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice.New York:Thames andHudson, 1989.
Reed, Henry Hope. The Golden City. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Reprinted, W. W. Norton & Co., 1978.
Scott, Geoffrey. The Architecture of Humanism. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914. Reprinted, W. W. Norton & Co., 1974 and 2000.
Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Architecture. Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press, 1979.
Scruton, Roger. The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism.New York:St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Semes, Steven W. The Architecture of the Classical Interior. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Summerson, Sir John. The Classical Language of Architecture. London:Methuen, 1964.
Vitruvius, Marcus Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius on Architecture. Translated by Morris Hickey Morgan and Stephen Kellogg, with an Introduction by Thomas Gordon Smith and illustrations by Thomas Gordon Smith and Matthew Aaron Rosenwhine.New York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
Wharton, Edith and OgdenCodman Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. Reprinted, W. W. Norton & Co., 1978 and 1997.
Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. London: A. Tiranti, 1952. Reprinted,New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971.
Manuals for Drawing the Classical Orders of Architecture
Brown, Frank Chouteau. The Study of the Orders: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Five Classic Orders of Architecture. Chicago: American Technical Society, 1919.
Freart de Chambray, Roland. Parallele de l’architecture antique avec la moderne. Paris, 1662. Reprinted,Paris, 1980. Translated into English,London, 1664 and reprinted, Farnborough, 1970.
Gibbs, James. Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture. London, 1732. Reprinted in reduced format with an Introduction by Christian Barman.London: Hodder, 1924.
Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph. Nouveau parallele des orders d’architecture des Grecs, des Romanes, et des auteurs modernes. Paris, 1819. Many subsequent editions, including later expanded editions with German text by Johann Matthaus von Mauch (Potsdam, 1845) and subsequent printings. Reprinted as A Parallel of the Classical Orders of Architecture. New York: Acanthus Press, 1997.
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da. Regola delle cinque ordini d’architettura 1562. Published in English as Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture, translated by Branko Mitrovic.New York: Acanthus Press, 1999.
Ware, William R. The American Vignola. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1904. Reprinted with Introduction by Henry Hope Reed and John Barrington Bayley.New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977, andDover Publications, 1994.
Traditional and Vernacular Architecture and Urbanism
Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. OxfordUniversity Press, 1979.
Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. OxfordUniversity Press, 1977.
Congress for the New Urbanism. Charter of the New Urbanism.New York: McGraw-Hill Professional Books, 1999.
Duany, Andres, et. al. New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.
Olsen, Donald. The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 1988.
The Prince of Wales. A Vision of Britain. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Ornament and Decoration
Bloomer, Kent. The Nature of Ornament. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.
Brolin, Brent C. Architectural Ornament: Banishment and Return. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.
Cromley, Elizabethand Stephen Calloway. The Elements of Style. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1991and 1996.
Gage, John. Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction.Berkeley andLos Angeles:University ofCalifornia Press, 1995.
Hamlin, A. D. F. The History of Ornament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Praz, Mario. An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1982.
Thornton, Peter. Authentic Décor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920. New York: Crescent Books, 1984.
The Allied Arts: Painting and Sculpture
Cox, Kenyon. The Classic Point of View. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1980.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Robert R Work, editor. Discourses on Art. New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 1975.
Rice, Pierce. Man as Hero: The Human Figure in Western Art. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987.
Santayana, George, The Sense of Beauty. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936.
Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture
Bruno, Vincent. The Parthenon. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1974.
De la Ruffiniere du Prey, Pierre. The Villas of Pliny: From Antiquity to Posterity. Chicago:University ofChicago Press, 1994.
D’Espouy, Hector. Fragments from Greek and Roman Architecture, with introductory notes by John Blatteau and Christiane Sears. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1981. Reprinted asGreek and Roman Architecture in Classic Drawings. New York:Dover Publications, 2000.
Lyttleton, Margaret. Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity. Ithaca:CornellUniversity Press, 1974.
MacDonald, William L. The Architecture of the Roman Empire, 2 volumes.New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 1965–86.
MacDonald, William L. The Pantheon. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
MacDonald William L. and John Pinto. Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy. New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 1991.
Stamper, John. The Roman Temple: The Republic to the Middle Empire.CambridgeUniversity Press. 2005.
Wilson Jones, Mark. The Principles of Roman Architecture. New Haven,YaleUniversity Press, 2001.
Italian Architecture
Letarouilly, Paul-Marie. Edifices de Rome Moderne. Paris: Bance Editeur, 1860. Reprinted by Princeton Architectural Press, 1982. A Student Edition with selected plates and essays by John Barrington Bayley, published as Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1984.
Mayernik, David. Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy. Westview Press, 2003.
Mitrovic, Branko. Learning from Palladio. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Palladio, Andrea. Quattro libri d’architettura (1570). Published in English as The Four Books of Architecture, (1738) by Isaac Ware. New York: Dover Publications, 1965. The Four Books on Architecture. Translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield.Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Serlio, Sebastiano. Tutte l’opere d’architettura et prospettiva (1584). First published in English as The Five Books of Architecture, 1611. New York: Dover Publications, 1982. Expanded edition of all Serlio’s works, Serlio on Architecture, 2 volumes. Translated byVaughan Hart and Peter Hicks.New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 2001.
Wittkower, Rudolf. Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600–1750. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973.
French Architecture
Egbert, Donald Drew. The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture. Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press, 1980.
Strange, T. A. An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Art. London: B. T. Batsford, 1950. Reprinted as French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts during the 17th and 18th Centuries. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968.
Von Kalnein, Wend. Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 1995.
British Architecture
Adam, Robert and James. Works in Architecture, 3 volumes.London: 1778, 1822. Reprinted,New York:Dover Publications, 1980.
Gore, Alan and Ann. The History of English Interiors. London: Phaidon, 1991.
Parissien, Stephen. Palladian Style. London: Phaidon Press, 2000.
Parissien, Stephen. Adam Style. London: Phaidon Press, 1994.
Parissien, Stephen. Regency Style. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.
Richardson, Sir Albert Edward. Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries. London: B. T. Batsford, 1914. Reprinted asMonumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1982.
Strange, T. A. An Historical Guide to English Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts. London: B. T. Batsford, 1908. Reprinted as English Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts during the 17th and 18th Centuries. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968.
American Architecture
Architects Emergency Committee. Great Georgian Houses of America, Volume 1.NewYork: The Kalkhoff Press, 1933. Volume 2.NewYork: The Scribner Press, 1937. Reprinted,New York:Dover Publications.
The BrooklynMuseum. The American Renaissance: 1876–1915. Brooklyn: TheBrooklynMuseum of Art, 1979.
Brown, Frank Chouteau and Russell Whitehead, editors. The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. The White Pine Bureau, 1914–1924. Reprinted as The Architectural Treasures of Early America, 10 volumes.Harrisburg: The National Historical Society, 1987.
Cole, John Y. and Henry Hope Reed, editors. The Library of Congress: Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1982 An expanded edition with additional plates and essays, W. W. Norton, 1997.
Institute of Classical Architecture. A Decade of Art and Architecture: 1992–2002. New York: Institute of Classical Architecture, 2002.
Lane, Mills. The Architecture of the Old South: Colonial and Federal.Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1996.
Lane, Mills. The Architecture of the Old South: Greek Revival and Romantic.Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1996.
Long, Gregory. Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley. New York: Rizzoli, 204.
Reed, Henry Hope, editor. The New York Public Library. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986.
Reed, Henry Hope. The United States Capitol: Its Architecture and Decoration. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Stern, Robert A. M., Gregory Gilmartin and John Massengale. New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.
Stern, Robert A. M., Gregory Gilmartin and Thomas Mellins. New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars.New York: Rizzoli, 1987.Monographs and anthologies documenting important contributions to classical architecture.
A Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead, and White, 1879–1915, 4 volumes.NewYork: The Architectural Book PublishingCo., 1915–1920. Reprinted, Da Capo Press, 1985. Student Edition with selected plates and Introductory Notes by Allan Greenberg and Michael George, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1981.
Dowling, ElizabethMeredith. New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 2004.
Dowling, ElizabethMeredith. American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
Harris, Eileen. The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors. New Haven:YaleUniversity Press, 2001.
John, Richard. Thomas Gordon Smith: The Rebirth of Classical Architecture. London: Andreas Papadakis, 2001.
John, Richard and David Walkin. John Simpson: The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Other Works.London: Andreas Papadakis, 2002.
Lowe, David Garrard. Stanford White’s New York. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.
Merthens, John H. American Splendor: The Architecture of Horace Trumbauer. New York: Acanthus Press, 2002.
Pennoyer, Peter and Ann Walker. The Architecture of Delano and Aldrich. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Richardson, Margaret and Mary Anne Stevens, editor. John Soane, Architect. London:RoyalAcademy of Arts, 1999.
Salny, Stephen M. Architecture of David Adler. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.
Warren, Charles D., editor. The Architecture of Charles Adams Platt. New York: AcanthusPress, 1998.
White, Samuel G. The Houses of McKim, Mead, and White. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.
White, Samuel G. The Masterworks of McKim, Mead and White. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.
Wilhide, Elizabeth. Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Warren, Charles D., editor. The Architecture of Charles Adams Platt. New York: AcanthusPress, 1998.
White, Samuel G. The Houses of McKim, Mead, and White. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.
White, Samuel G. The Masterworks of McKim, Mead and White. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.
Wilhide, Elizabeth. Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.