Six months before he died in poverty and forgotten, Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826) donated one of the most singular and fascinating graphic oeuvres of his ...
This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout ...
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous ...
As a decorative style, Neo-classicism emerged in the 18th Century. It presents different forms in different countries (Louis XVI in France, Regency Style in ...
The most versatile British designer of the eighteenth century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of ...
An eighteenth century printmaker and architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a lifelong champion of Rome, publishing more than a thousand etchings of The Eternal ...
Architects in the 19th century worked in a time of transition, of varied opinions and emerging techniques, of changing ideas and practices. Research into ...
James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy ...
Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), l'un des architectes les plus actifs de la fin de l'Ancien Régime, s'affirma par la puissance monumentale de ses oeuvres, ...
The designs of five recently completed memorials are examined in this issue, including: 'Women in the Memory' in Chile by Ofiscina de Arquitectura; the ...
À loccasion de restaurations récentes ¬-2008- de nombreux édifices palladiens ont retrouvé leur ancienne splendeur. Une campagne photographique inédite rend hommage à larchitecte vénitien ...
James Gibbs remains one of England's most influential and respected architects. His legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as ...
