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• Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc.
• Architecture -- Early works to 1800

• Escuela de arquitectura civil : en que se contienen los ordenes de arquitectura, la distribución de los planos de templos y casas, y el conocimiento de los materiales (En la oficina de Joseph de Orga :, 1804), by Athanasio Genaro Brizguz y Bru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (En la Imprenta de Miguél Escribano, calle Angosta de San Bernardo, 1773), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Miguel Escribano, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osservazioni che servono di continuazione al Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti (Per Giambatista Pasquali, 1771), by Antonio Visentini, Teofilo Gallaccini, and Giovanni Battista Pasquali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura (Por Don Plácido Barco Lopez ..., 1795), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Plácido Barco López, and Pedro Enguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principi di architettura civile (A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1785), by Francesco Milizia and Remondini (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qvattro libri dell'architettvra di Andrea Palladio (Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581), by Andrea Palladio, Cristoforo Chrieger, Christophorus Coriolanus, and Giovanni Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on architecture, consisting of rules founded upon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building ... (Printed for R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1759), by Robert Morris, Robert Sayer, B. Cole, and W. H. Toms (page images at HathiTrust)

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• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Théorie des proportions en architecture d'après l'analyse des monuments (André, Daly fils et cie, 1893), by Paul Fauré (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Design in civil architecture (Philosophical Library, 1956), by A. E. Richardson and Hector Othon Corfiato (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kompositionsgesetze in der Kunst des Mittelalters : Studien (B.G. Teubner, 1915), by August Schmarsow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The geometry and optics of ancient architecture illustrated by examples from Thebes, Athens and Rome. (Williams and Norgate, 1878), by John Pennethorne and John Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Parthenon and other Greek temples; their dynamic symmetry (Yale University Press, 1924), by Jay Hambidge and Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Génie de l'architecture (L'auteur [et] chez B. Morin, 1780), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indication in architectural design; a natural method of studying architectural design with the help of indication as a means of analysis. (The William T. Comstock company, 1916), by David Jacob Varon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural composition (J. H. Jansen, 1923), by Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orientierende Vorstudien zur Systematik der Architekturproportionen auf historischer Grundlage ... (Druck von Kunz & Gabel, 1906), by Fritz Hoeber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principj di architettura civile (nella tipografia Remondini, 1804), by Francesco Milizia, Philip Hardwick, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani Sanese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad quadratum; a study of the geometrical bases of classic & medieval religious architecture, with special reference to their application in the restoration of the cathedral of Nidaros (Throndhjem) Norway (B. T. Batsford, 1921), by Fredrik Macody Lund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural composition : an attempt to order and phrase ideas which hitherto have been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers (Van Nostrand, 1914), by John Beverley Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwech und Form im Hochbau Ein Handbuch für Bauleute und Bauschulen. Teil l. Die Formgestaltung der einfachen Baumassen. Von Dipl. Ing. A. Muschter. (Seemann & co., 1914), by Alwin Muschter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Architectural composition : an attempt to order and phrase ideas which hitherto have been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers (Van Nostrand, 1908), by John Beverley Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discussion of composition, especially as applied to architecture (The Macmillan Company;, 1902), by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Architektonische Composition. Allgemeine Grundzüge. (Stuttgart, 1904), by August Thiersch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Form in architecture : bineral and analogo-contrasting principles in composition, gonio-space, and architecture (Engineering News Bulletin, School of Engineering, N.C. A & T State University, 1974), by J. A. Stulinsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The essentials of composition as applied to art (The Macmillan company, 1913), by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic principles of modular coordination (Washington, 1953), by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency and Myron Whitlock Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kompositionsgesetze in der Kunst des Mittelalters : Studien (B.G. Teubner, 1915), by August Schmarsow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Aesthetik der Architektur : Vorträge und Studien (K. Wittwer, 1887), by Adolf Göller and Adolf Göller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estética de las artes del dibujo. La arquitectura, su teoría estética expuesta, comprobada y aplicada á la composicion. Constituyendo un ensayo de teoría del arte (Impr. de T. Fortanet, 1876), by Luis Cabello y Aso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin. ([New York]., 1924), by National Institute for Architectural Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le XIXe siècle finira-t-il par avoir un style d'architecture qui lui soit propre? Solution pratique par la théorie harmonique des proportions et par un concours universel sur la composition des premiers éléments architectoniques (Derache, 1864), by Auguste Du Peyrat (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt to define the geometric proportions of Gothic architecture, as illustrated by the cathedrals of Carlisle and Worcester. (T. and W. Boone, 1840), by Robert William Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis des leçons d'architecture données à l'École royale polytechnique. (Paris, 1823), by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and Charles Pierre Joseph Normand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural proportion. (A.L. Bancroft & co., 1880), by A. J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horizontal curves of St. John's, at Chester ([s.n.], 1914), by W. H. Goodyear (page images at HathiTrust)
• The orthographic beauty of the Parthenon referred to a law of nature. To which are prefixed a few observations on the importance of æsthetic science as an element in architectural education. (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1853), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudimentary treatise on the principles of design in architecture as deducible from nature and exemplified in the works of the Greek and Gothic architects (J. Weale, 1850), by Edward Lacy Garbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of architectural composition; an attempt to order and phrase ideas which have hitherto been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers [by] John Beverly [!] Robinson. (The Architectural record co., 1899), by John Beverley Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gotik og geometriske systemer (Trondhjems domkirkes restaureringsarbeider, 1916), by Hans Dedekam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of architectural criticism, for the use of students, amateurs, and reviewers. (J. Williams, 1837), by Joseph Gwilt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über gotische proportionsgesetze ... (Ernst, 1914), by Karl Witzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der griechisch-dorische peripteraltempel; ein beitrag zur antiken proportionslehre (E. Wasmuth, a. g., 1918), by Max Theuer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Architectural composition (W. Helburn, inc., 1923), by David Jacob Varon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las formas artísticas en la arquitectura técnica; tratado de ingeniería estética (A. Bosch, 1916), by Félix Cardellach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Proportion in Antike und Mittelalter. (C.H. Beck, 1926), by Ernst Moessel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Metamorfosi del giuoco detto l'enimma chinese. (Presso Gius. Landi librajo sul Canto di vià de Servi, 1818), by Alessandro Gherardesca and Giuseppe Landi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle théorie du module, déduite du texte méme de Vítruve et application de cette théorie a quelques monuments de l'antiquité grecque et romaine (Clavel-Ballivet et ce., 1862), by Auguste Aurès and Vitruvius Pollio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudimentary treatise on the principles of design in architecture, as deducible from nature and exemplified in the works of the Greek and Gothic architects. (Virtue & co., 1867), by Edward Lacy Garbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural illustrations : history and description of Carlisle cathedral. (T. & W. Boone, 1840), by Robert William Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Baukunst der Renaissance in Italien (J.M. Gebhardt, 1914), by Josef Durm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Struktive und ästhetische Stilrichtungen. Kirchliche Baukunst. (A. Bergsträsser, 1901), by Heinrich Geymüller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In welchem Style sollen wir bauen? (C.F. Müller, 1984), by Heinrich Hübsch and Wulf Schirmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Saggio teorico-pratico intorno alla determinazione dell' ombre nei diversi soggetti d'architettura geometrica. (Presso Giuseppe Tofani, 1805), by Cosimo Rossi-Melocchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osservazioni che servono di continuazione al Trattato di Teofilo Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti (Per Giambatista Pasquali, 1771), by Antonio Visentini, Teofilo Gallaccini, and Giovanni Battista Pasquali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural proportion, illustrated : a new system of proportion showing the relation between an order of architecture and a building of any kind : rules for finding the height of foundations, bases, water-tables, window sills, doors, windows, balustrades and superimposed stories : width of doors, windows, architraves, pilasters and posts : height and projection of entablatures, cornices, and all exterior finish : also height of bases, window-stools, height and projection of stucco cornices, and interior finish, with many valuable tables (A.L. Bancroft & Co., printers and lithographers, 1880), by A. J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principi di architettura civile (A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1785), by Francesco Milizia and Remondini (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio sopra il bello di proporzione in architettura (Tipografia Remondiniana, 1806), by Alessandro Barca and Antonio Noale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Proportionsgesetz der antiken Baukunst und sein Nachleben im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance. (Karl J. Trübner, 1895), by Georg Dehio (page images at HathiTrust)
• La penitenciaría (Impr. de F. Díaz de León, 1892), by José María Romero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ornamental drawing and architectural design : with notes, historical and practical (Ward, Lock and Co., 1882), by Robert Scott Burn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raum und Materie, Ein baugeschichtlicher Darstellungsversuch der Raumentwicklung. ([Berlin, 1913), by Erwin Anton Gutkind (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qvattro libri dell'architettvra di Andrea Palladio (Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581), by Andrea Palladio, Cristoforo Chrieger, Christophorus Coriolanus, and Giovanni Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Optische-Maassstab, oder, Die Theorie und Praxis des äesthetischen Sehens in den bildenden Künsten ... (Ernst Wasmuth, 1884), by H. Maertens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le problème de la forme dans les arts figuratifs (Vve. E. Bouillon;, 1903), by Adolf von Hildebrand and Georges M. Baltus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Versuch einer architektonischen Formenlehre in Beziehung auf Gebäude unserer Zeit für Architekten und Kunstfreunde (G. Reimer, 1837), by Johannes Andreas Romberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Wesen der Baukunst; Einführung in das Verstehen der Baukunst: Grundsätze und Anwendungen. (O. Leiner, 1919), by Paul Klopfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le canon et le sentiment des proportions dans l'architecture moderne ... application a des monuments modernes ... (Schmid, 1898), by Paul Faure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrations of Carlisle Cathedral, 1839. (T. & W. Boone, 1840), by Robert William Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of design (E. Benn, 1924), by Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture and Robert Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The principles of architectural composition (Architectural Press, 1924), by Howard Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kompositionsgesetze in der kunst des mittelalters (B.G. Teubner, 1920), by August Schmarsow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les grandes lignes architecturales, et de leurs rapports harmoniques avec les climats. (Paris, 1877), by Jean Louis Octave Puy de Labastie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Règles des cinq ordres d'architecture de J. Barrozio de Vignole (Liége : Dominique Avanzo et Compagnie, 1844., 1844), by Vignola and François-Auguste Renard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tempelmasse; das Gesetz der Proportion in den antiken und altchristlichen Sakralbauten; ein Beitrag zur Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetik (A. Schroll & Co., 1912), by Odilo Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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