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This book charls the fascinating history of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present day. Addressing its subject country by country and featuring over 850 illustrations, it offers a chronological overview of the most important architects and architectural theoreticians from Alberti to Koolhaas. Book jacket.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. 6)
• Introduction (p. 8)
• Italy (p. 20)
• Leon Battista Alberti (p. 22)
• Antonio Averlino, called Filarete (p. 28)
• Francesco di Giorgio Martini (p. 38)
• Anonymous (p. 48)
• Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona (p. 60)
• Cesare Cesariano (p. 66)
• Sebastiano Serlio (p. 76)
• Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola (p. 86)
• Pietro Cataneo (p. 96)
• Daniele Barbaro (p. 102)
• Andrea Palladio (p. 110)
• Vincenzo Scamozzi (p. 118)
• Guarino Guarini (p. 128)
• Andrea Pozzo (p. 138)
• Domenico de' Rossi (p. 148)
• Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (p. 156)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (p. 164)
• Bernardo Antonio Vittone (p. 174)
• Francesco Milizia and Giovanni Battista Cipriani (p. 184)
• France (p. 192)
• Villard de Honnecourt (p. 194)
• Jean Martin (p. 202)
• Philibert de l'Orme (p. 212)
• Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (p. 220)
• Pierre Le Muet (p. 232)
• Roland Freart de Chambray (p. 240)
• Claude Perrault (p. 248)
• Francois Blondel (p. 258)
• Augustin Charles D'Aviler (p. 264)
• Jean-Louis de Cordemoy (p. 274)
• Charles-Etienne Briseux (p. 278)
• Germain Boffrand (p. 288)
• Jacques-Francois Blondel (p. 296)
• Marc-Antoine Laugier (p. 310)
• Marie-Joseph Peyre (p. 312)
• Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (p. 318)
• Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (p. 328)
• Jean-Baptiste Rondelet and Guillaume Abel Blouet (p. 336)
• Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (p. 344)
• Spain (p. 356)
• Diego de Sagredo (p. 358)
• Juan Bautista Villalpando (p. 366)
• Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolas (p. 378)
• Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (p. 386)
• England (p. 398)
• John Shute (p. 400)
• Henry Wotton (p. 406)
• Colen Campbell (p. 412)
• James Gibbs (p. 422)
• Robert Morris (p. 430)
• Isaac Ware (p. 438)
• William Chambers (p. 446)
• Augustus Welby Pugin (p. 454)
• John Ruskin (p. 462)
• Germany (p. 470)
• Albrecht Durer (p. 472)
• Walther Rivius or Ryff (p. 482)
• Hans Blum (p. 494)
• Hans Vredeman de Vries (p. 500)
• Daniel Speckle (p. 510)
• Wendel Dietterlin (p. 520)
• Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (p. 530)
• Abraham Leuthner von Grundt (p. 540)
• Nicolaus Goldmann and Leonhard Christoph Sturm (p. 550)
• Paulus Decker (p. 560)
• Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (p. 574)
• Friedrich Weinbrenner (p. 586)
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (p. 594)
• Leo von Klenze (p. 604)
• Christian Carl Josias Bunsen, Johann Gottfried Gutensohn, Johann Michael Knapp (p. 612)
• Heinrich Hubsch (p. 622)
• Gottfried Semper (p. 626)
• Friedrich Hoffstadt (p. 634)
• Carl Alexander Heideloff (p. 642)
• Georg Gottlob Ungewitter (p. 648)
• 20th century (p. 658)
• Camillo Sitte (p. 660)
• Ebenezer Howard (p. 668)
• Adolf Loos (p. 674)
• Tony Garnier (p. 680)
• Bruno Taut (p. 692)
• Le Corbusier (p. 704)
• Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson (p. 714)
• Walter Gropius (p. 722)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (p. 732)
• Paul Schmitthenner (p. 742)
• Sigfried Giedion (p. 752)
• Council of Ministers of the GDR (p. 764)
• Archigram (p. 770)
• Kisho Kurokawa (p. 776)
• Aldo Rossi (p. 782)
• Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour (p. 790)
• Charles A. Jencks (p. 802)
• Rem Koolhaas (p. 812)
• Bibliography (p. 826)
• Index (p. 834)