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Neoclassicism (Architecture)

Here are entered works on the revival of classical principles in architecture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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• Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- France
• Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- Germany
• Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- Great Britain
• Greek revival (Architecture)

• Neoclassical architecture

• 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)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)

• 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)

• The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires (in English and French; London: Printed for the authors, 1773-1779), by Robert Adam and James Adam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Some Old Masters of Greek Architecture (Great Barrington, MA: Pub. at the Quarter-Oak, 1899), by Harry Douglas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House (Corinth series v1 part 5; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1960), by Saul S. Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mediaeval Architecture in the Central Area of Corinth (Corinth series v16; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1957), by Robert Scranton (PDF in Greece)

• The Roman Villa (Corinth series v5; Cambridge, MA: American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Harvard University Press, 1930), by Theodore Leslie Shear (PDF in Greece)

• Mediaeval Architecture in the Central Area of Corinth (Corinth series v16; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1957), by Robert Scranton (PDF in Greece)

• The Roman Villa (Corinth series v5; Cambridge, MA: American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Harvard University Press, 1930), by Theodore Leslie Shear (PDF in Greece)

• Decorated Architectural Terracottas (v4 pt. 1 of Corinth excavation reports; Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Harvard University Press, 1929), by Ida Carleton Thallon Hill and Lida Shaw King
  • PDF with commentary in Greece
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Asklepieion and Lerna (Corinth series v14; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1951), by Carl Roebuck (PDF in Greece)

• Probestücke von Städtemauern des Alten Griechenlands (in German; Munich et al.: J. G. Cotta, 1831), by William Gell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Three Temples at Delphi: Their Religious and Historical Significance (1962), by G. W. Elderkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Temples: Reproductions of a Series of Lithographs Made by Him in the Land of Temples, March-June 1913, Together with Impressions and Notes by the Artist (London: W. Heinemann; Philadelphia: J. Lippincott and Co., c1915), by Joseph Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Two Lectures on the Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidaurus and Athens, Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (reprinted from Otia Mersiana; 1899), by Richard Caton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Observations on the Hephaisteion (reprint of Hesperia supplement #5, originally published 1941; this edition Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1975), by William Bell Dinsmoor (PDF in Greece)

• Buried Cities, by Jennie Hall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Il Trono Dello Zeus di Fidia in Olympia (extract from Memorie della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, in Italian; 1921), by G. Q. Giglioli, contrib. by César A. Pestana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Setting of the Periclean Parthenon (Hesperia supplement #3, originally published 1940; this edition Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1975), by Gorham Phillips Stevens (PDF with commentary in Greece)

• Two Lectures on the Temples and Ritual of Asklepios at Epidaurus and Athens, Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (reprinted from Otia Mersiana; 1899), by Richard Caton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Via Gabina Villas: Sites 10, 11, and 13, ed. by Walter M. Widrig (illustrated HTML at Rice)

• The Via Gabina Villas: Sites 10, 11, and 13, ed. by Walter M. Widrig (illustrated HTML at Rice)

• Viaggio Curioso de' Palazzi e Ville Più Notabili di Roma (in Italian; Rome: Per il Moneta, 1683), by Pietro de' Sebastiani
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images in Italy

• Obeliscus Pamphilius (in Latin; Rome: L. Grignani, 1650), by Athanasius Kircher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas (2015), by Ingrid Böck (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1982), ed. by Russell Walden (PDF files at MIT)
• John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)
• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF at archnet.org)
• Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Mimarlık (partial serial archives)

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt
  • illustrated HTML at books-about-california.com
  • Gutenberg text (text only)
• The architecture and landscape gardening of the exposition, a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific international exposition; (first edition; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1915), ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, and John Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2000), by Adolf Max Vogt (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Professional Observations on the Architecture of the Principal Ancient and Modern Buildings in France and Italy: With Remarks on the Painting and Sculpture, and a Concise Local Description of Those Countries, Written From Sketches and Memoranda Made During a Visit in the Years 1802 and 1803 (London: Printed for the author by W. Ballintine, 1806), by George Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.