Architecture Books

An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius

Vitruvius Pollio

An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author.Author's Introduction:There are so many things in the Works of Vitruvius that do not directly apper..

Compte de L'Oeuvre de la Cathédrale de Chartres en 1415-1416

M. L. Merlet

Compte de L'Oeuvre de la Cathédrale de Chartres en 1415-1416 is a book on history of architecture written in French language by Luc. Merlet...

The Crown of Wild Olive

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varie..

The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer

Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture.Excerpts:Amongst the vestiges..

The Alhambra

Albert Frederick Calvert

The Alhambra may be likened to an exquisite opera which can only be appreciated to the full when one is under the spell of its magic influence. But as the witchery of an inspired score can be recalled..

Sticks and Stones - A Study of American Architecture and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

This book would not have been put together but for the persistent encouragement and kindly interest of Mr. Albert Jay Nock: and it was in The Freeman that the first five chapters, in somewhat briefer ..

Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza

Albert F. Calvert

The six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they ..

The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland - Vol. 3 of 3

David MacGibbon

Reference is made in Vol. II. to Mr. T. L. Watson’s theory regarding the vaulting of the lower church in St. Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow. Having recently had the privilege, on the invitation of Mr. P. ..