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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Intelectual Culture -- Architectural Knowledge -- The â#x80;#x98;Regularâ#x80;#x99; Architecture -- Architects and Intelectual Culture in POST-RESTORATION England -- 1: Practising Architecture -- The â#x80;#x98;Professionâ#x80;#x99; of Architecture in Seventeenth-Century England -- Roger North and the Moral Conception of the Architect -- Architectus Ingenio: John Evelynâ#x80;#x99;s Paradigmatic Architect |
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Architectus Manuarius: Evelyn and the Contemporary BuilderEvelyn and the Future of Architectural Education -- 2: Collecting Architecture -- Architectural Collecting -- Sources of Architectural Collecting -- The Materials of Architectural Collecting -- Books -- Prints -- Drawings -- The Function of Architectural Collections -- 3: Discovering Architecture -- Architecture in the Philosophical Transactions -- Martin Listerâ#x80;#x99;s Account of the Multangular Tower in York -- Wiliam Halifaxâ#x80;#x99;s Account of Palmyra -- Francis Vernonâ#x80;#x99;s Account of Athens |
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4: Inventing ArchitectureArchitecture and Invention -- John Evelyn and the Process of Designing Architecture -- The Orders in Seventeenth-Century England -- Fréart and the Orders -- John Evelyn and the Orders -- Christopher Wren, the Orders, and Invention in Architecture -- Conclusion: Architecture, Learning, and Invention -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Manuscript Sources -- British Library -- National Archives of Scotland -- Ashmolean Museum, Western Art Department -- Royal Society Library, London -- Royal College of Physicians London |
| Summary |
Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people such as John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, and Roger North. The book explores how these figures treated architecture as a subject of intellectual enquiry, either as writers, as designers of buildings, or as both. In four substantial chapters it looks at how the architect was defined as a major intellectual figure; how architects acquired material that allowed them to define themselves as intellectually competent architects; how intellectual writers in the period handled knowledge of ancient architecture in their writing; and how the design process in architecture was conceived of in theoretical writing at the time. In all, the book shows that the key to understanding English architectural culture at the time is to understand how architecture was handled as knowledge, and how architects were conceived of as collectors and producers of such knowledge. It also makes the claim that architecture was treated as an extremely serious and important area of intellectual enquiry, the result of which was that, by the turn of the eighteenth century, architects and architectural writers could count themselves amongst England's intellectual and cultural elite |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship, viewed January 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Medieval.
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Intellectual life
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Architecture
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191808913 |
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0191808911 |
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9780191063367 |
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0191063363 |
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