Revised to integrate recent research and new thought, Sir John Summerson charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology and the social framework of architecture are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building world. Men of genius and buildings of fame emerge: Inigo Jones, Wren, Vanbrugh, Adam, Soane; Hampton Court, St Paul's Cathedral, London squares and the terraces and crescents of Bath. Appendices deal with Scottish architecture before the union and buildings in the 13 colonies of America. This book is a companion to Ellis Waterhouse's "Painting in Britain, 1530-1830" and Margaret Whinney's "Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830".
- ISBN10 0140561765
- ISBN13 9780140561760
- Publish Date 21 November 1991 (first published May 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 592
- Language English