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The Classicist’s Library: Recommended Readings in

Architecture, Urbanism and Art

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A glimpse of my library in New York.

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I am o ten asked which books should be read to learn about the history and practice of classical architecture. In an attempt to
answer that question, I o fer this list of essential books. Without doubt it is incomplete, as all pursuits of knowledge will always
be. And it certainly re lects my own interests, as it is weighted to American architecture. Nonetheless, I hope you nd it useful
and please advise me of any errors or omissions.

eoretical Works on Classical and Traditional Architecture and Urbanism

Alexander, Christopher.  e Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, 1979.

Alexander, Christopher.  A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, 1977.

HRH e Prince of Wales. A Vision of Britain. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Krier, Léon. Architecture of Community. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2009.

Krier, Leon. Architecture: Choice or Fate. London: Andreas Papadakis, 1998

Reed, Henry Hope.  e Golden City. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Reprinted by W. W. Norton & Co., 1978.

Scott, Geo frey.  e Architecture of Humanism. Boston: Houghton, Mi lin, 1914. Reprinted by W. W. Norton & Co., 1974 and 2000.

Scruton, Roger.  e Aesthetics of Architecture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Scruton, Roger.  e Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Tzonis, Alexander and L. Lefaivre. Classical Architecture, e Poetics of Order, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

Watkin, David. Morality and Architecture Revisited, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001.

Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. London: A. Tiranti, 1952. Reprinted, New York: W. W. Norton &
Co., 1971.

General Works on Contemporary Classicism and Traditional Urbanism

Institute of Classical Architecture. A Decade of Art and Architecture: 1992–2002. New York: Institute of Classical Architecture, 2002.

Dowling, Elizabeth Meredith. New Classicism: e Rebirth of Traditional Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 2004.

Treatises, Parallels, and Pattern Books on Classical Architecture

Adam, Robert.  Classical Architecture: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style. United Kingdom: Viking, 1990.

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Alberti, Leon Battista. e Ten Books of Architecture: e 1755 Leoni Edition. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1987.

Benjamin, Asher. e Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (1830). Facsimile of 1830 ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1989.

Benjamin, Asher. e Country Builder’s Assistant: e First American Architectural Handbook. Bedford, Ma: Applewood Books, 1989.

Blondel, Jacques-François. Cours d’Architecture, ou Traité de la Décoration, Distribution & Construction des Bâtiments. Paris: Desaint
[etc.], 1771-1777

Brown, Frank Chouteau.  e Study of the Orders: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Five Classic Orders of Architecture. Chicago: American
Technical Society, 1919.

Campbell, Colen. Vitruvius Britannicus: e Classic of Eighteenth-Century British Architecture (Dover Books on Architecture). New York:
Dover Publications, 2006.

Chambers, William, Joseph Gwilt, and omas Hardwick. A Treatise On the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, (Dover Pictorial Ar-
chive Series). New York: Dover Publications, 2003.

Chitham, Robert. e Classical Orders of Architecture. Oxford: Architectural Press, 1985.

D’Espouy, Hector. Greek and Roman Architecture in Classic Illustrations. New York: Dover Publications, 1999.

Durand, Jean Nicolas Louis. Recueil at Parallele des Edi ces. Paris: 1800.

Fréart de Chambray, Roland. Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne. Paris: Edmé Martin, 1650. English translation re-
printed by Farnborough, 1970.

Gabriel, Jean-Francois. Classical Architecture for the Twenty- rst Century. W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.

Gibbs, James. Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture. London, 1732. Reprint by Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010.

Gibbs, James. Gibbs’ Book of Architecture: An Eighteenth Century Classic. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 2008.

Gromort, Georges. e Elements of Classical Architecture. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Hall, John, and omas Gordon Smith. John Hall and the Grecian Style in America: A Reprint of ree Pattern Books Published in Balti-
more in 1840 (Acanthus Press Reprint Series. the 19th Century, Landmarks in Design, Vol 2). New York City: Acanthus Press, 1996.

Langley, Batty. e City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs. London: S. Harding, 1756.

Langley, Batty, and omas Langley. e Builder’s Jewel Or, the Youth’s Instructor and Workman’s Remembrancer. Facsimile of 1746 ed.
Harvard: Ayer Co Pub, 1968.

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Langley, Batty, and omas Langley. Gothick Architecture: A Reprint of the Original 1742 Treatise (Dover Pictorial Archive Series). illus-
trated edition ed. New York: Dover Publications, 2003.

Morris, Robert. Select Architecture (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series). Facsimile of 1757 ed. New York and Washington D.C.: Da
Capo Press, 1973. Print.

Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph. Nouveau parallele des orders d’architecture des Grecs, des Romanes, et des auteurs modernes. Paris, 1819.
Reprinted as A Parallel of the Classical Orders of Architecture. New York: Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture and Acan-
thus Press, 1997.

Pain, William. e Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth’s Instructor. London : William Pain, 1797.

Palladio, Andrea. e Four Books of Architecture (Dover Pictorial Archives). New York: Dover Publications, 1965.

Serlio, Sebastiano. e Five Books of Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1982.

Serlio, Sebastiano. Serlio on Domestic Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1997.

Smith, omas Gordon. Vitruvius on Architecture. New York: Monacelli, 2004.

Summerson, Sir John.  e Classical Language of Architecture. London: Methuen, 1964. Reprinted by e MIT Press (1966).

Swan, Abraham. Georgian Architectural Designs and Details: e Classic 1757 Stylebook. New York: Dover Publications, 2005.

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da., Regola delle cinque ordini d’architettura 1562. Translated to English by Branko Mitrovic and published
as Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture, New York: Acanthus Press, 1999 and by John Leeke, published as Canon of the Five Orders of
Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 2010.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus., translation by Morris Hickey Morgan. e Ten Books on Architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus., translation by Ingrid Rowland. e Ten Books on Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001.

Geometry and Proportion

Allen, Jon. Drawing  Geometry: A Primer of Basic Forms for Artists, Designers and Architects. Edinburgh: Floris, 2007.

Euclid, translated by omas Little Heath.  e irteen Books of Euclid’s Elements. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications, 1956.

Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice. New York: ames and Hudson, 1989.

Proclus, and Glenn R. Morrow. A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1970.

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Schol eld, P. H. e eory of Proportion in Architecture. London: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Architectural Composition

Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt. Architectural Composition. Cleveland: J.H. Jansen, 1926.

Edwards, Trystan. Architectural Style. London: Faber and Gower, 1926.

Edwards, Trystan. Style and Composition in Architecture. Chippendale: Alec Tiranti, 1952.

Edwards, Trystan. Good and Bad Manners in architecture: An Essay on the Social Aspects of Civic Design. London: John Tiranti, 1945.

Harbeson, John F. e Study of Architectural Design. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Pickering, Ernest. Architectural Design. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc; London: Chapman & Hall Limited, 1947.

Stratton, Arthur. Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture. New York: Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2007.

Ware, William R.  e American Vignola. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1904. Reprinted with Introduction by Henry
Hope Reed and John Barrington Bayley. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977, and Dover Publications, 1994.

Decoration and Ornament

Bloomer, Kent.  e Nature of Ornament. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.

Brolin, Brent C. Architectural Ornament: Banishment and Return. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.

Hamlin, A. D. F.  e History of Ornament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.

Walker, C. Howard and Richard Sammons. eory of Mouldings. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.

Interior Architecture and Decoration

Clute, Eugene. e treatment of interior. New York: e Pencil Points Press, Inc, 1926.

Codman Jr., Ogden, and Edith Wharton. e Decoration Of Houses – e Original 1897 Edition. New York: Mount Press/Rizzoli, 2007.
Print.

Semes, Steven W. e Architecture of the Classical Interior. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Print.

Construction Details

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Comparative Architectural Details: A Selection from Pencil Points 1932-1937. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Franck, Christine and Brent Hull. Traditional American Rooms: Celebrating Style, Cra tsmanship, and Historic Woodwork (Winterthur
Style Sourcebook). Fox Chapel Publishing, 2009.

Knobloch, Philip George. Good practice in construction: Part II ( e Pencil Points Library, v. 3). New York: Pencil Points Press, 1925.

Snyder, Frank. Building Details. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.

Dra ting and Rendering Techniques

Cigliano, J, and G Hartman. Pencil Points Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for the Dra ting Room, 1920-1943. New York: Prince-
ton Architectural Press, 2004.

Magonigle, H. Van Buren. Architectural Rendering in Wash. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1921.

McGoodwin, Henry. Architectural Shades and Shadows. Concord: Bates & Guild, Boston, 1922.

Massimiliano, David. Ruins of Ancient Rome: e Drawings of French Architects Who Won the Prix De Rome 1786-1924. J. Paul Getty
Museum, 2002.

Architectural History – Comprehensive

Fletcher, Banister, and Dan Cruickshank. Sir Banister Fletcher’s a History of Architecture.Oxford: Architectural, 1996.

Gwilt, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Architecture. London: 1867. Reprinted,New York: Bonanza Books, 1982.

Watkin, David. A History of Western Architecture. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 2005

Architectural History – Ancient Greek

Barletta, Barbara A.  e Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Belozerskaya, Marina, and Kenneth D. S. Lapatin. Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum,
2004.

Coulton, John James. Ancient Greek Architects at Work: Problems of Structure and Design. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977.

Dinsmoor, William Bell, and William J. Anderson.  e Architecture of Ancient Greece; an Account of Its Historic Development. New York:
Biblo and Tannen, 1973.

Doxiadis, Constantinos Apostolou, and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Architectural Space in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1972.

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Hersey, George L.  e Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi. Cambridge, MA: MIT,
1988.

Gallo, Luciana. Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: e Elgin Drawings at the British Museum. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.

Lawrence, A. W., and R. A. Tomlinson. Greek Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.

Martin, Roland. Greek Architecture: Architecture of Crete, Greece, and the Greek World. New York: Electa/Rizzoli, 1988.

Rhodes, Robin Francis. Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Scully, Vincent.  e Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.

Senseney, John R.  e Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Cra tsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman
Architecture. New York: Cambridge UP, 2011.

Steele, James, and Ersin Alok. Hellenistic Architecture in Asia Minor. London: Academy Editions, 1992.

Architectural History – Ancient Etruscan and Roman

Boëthius, Axel, Roger Ling, and Tom Rasmussen. Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

De Caro, S. et al. Pompei E Gli Architetti Francesi Dell’Ottocento. École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts, 1981.

MacDonald, William Lloyd.  e Architecture of the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale Univ., 1982.

MacDonald, William L.  e Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002.

MacDonald William L. and John Pinto. Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Stamper, John.  e Roman Temple: e Republic to the Middle Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Ward-Perkins, J. B. Roman Imperial Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.

Wilson Jones, Mark.  e Principles of Roman Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Architectural History – American

Architects Emergency Committee. Great Georgian Houses of America, Volume 1. NewYork: e Kalkho f  Press, 1933. Volume 2.
NewYork: e Scribner Press, 1937. Reprinted, New York: Dover Publications.

Axelrod, A. e Colonial Revival in America. New York and London: WW Norton & Co, 1985.

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Bailey, Rosalie Fellows. Pre-revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. New York: Dover,
1968.

Blackburn, Roderic H. Dutch Colonial Homes in America. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2002.

Blackburn, Roderic H. Great Houses of New England. New York: Rizzoli, 2008.

Blackburn, Roderic H. Old Homes of New England: Historic Houses In Clapboard, Shingle, and Stone. New York: Rizzoli, 2010.

Bottomley, William Lawrence, and Fiske Kimball. Great Georgian Houses of America  Vol 1 & 2. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.

Braden, Susan R. e Architecture of Leisure: e Florida Resort Hotels of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant (Florida History and Culture).
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Brown, Frank Chouteau and Russell Whitehead, editors.  e White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. e White Pine Bureau,
1914–1924. Reprinted as  e Architectural Treasures of Early America, 10 volumes. Harrisburg: e National Historical Society, 1987.

Carley, Rachel.  e Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York: Henry Holt and, 1994.

Earl, Polly Anne. Palm Beach: An Architectural Legacy. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2003.

Garrett, Wendell. Classic America: e Federal Style & Beyond. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

Garrett, Wendell. American Colonial: Puritan Simplicity to Georgian. New York: Monacelli, 1998.

Garvin, James L. A Building History Of Northern New England. New York: University Press Of New England, Hanover, 2001.

Gordon, Elsbeth K. Florida’s Colonial Architectural Heritage: e Florida Architectural Heritage Series (Florida Heritage). Gainesville, FL:
University Press of Florida, 2002.

Gross, Geo frey, Gregory Huber, and Margaret Bye Richie. Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County and
Brandywine Valley. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2005.

Hamlin, Talbot. Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life
Prior to the War Between the States. New York: Dover Publications, 1964.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1984.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Virginia. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi – Alabama. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1989.

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Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Kentucky & Tennessee. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1993.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Colonial & Federal. Savannah: Beehive Foundation, 1996.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Maryland. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1996.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1997.

Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi and Alabama. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1997.

Lawrence, John with photography by Steve Gross and Sue Daley. Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana. Abrams, 2007.

Long, Gregory. Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley. New York: Rizzoli, 2004.

Howard, Hugh. Colonial Houses: e Historic Homes of Williamsburg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

Katz, Ron. French America: French Architecture Form Colonialization to e Birth Of A Nation. Archipelago Press, 2005.

Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of e American Colonies And Of e Early Republic. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.

Manucy, Albert. Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: e People and eir Homes. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008.

Manucy, Albert C. e Houses of St. Augustine, 1565-1821. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992.

Massey, James C., and Shirley Maxwell. House Styles in America: e Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes. Los
Angles: Studio, 1999.

Mcalester, A. Lee, Lee Mcalester, and Virginia Mcalester. Great American Houses and eir Architectural Styles. New York: Abbeville
Press, 1994.

Mcalester, Lee, and Virginia Mcalester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Meeske, Harrison. e Hudson Valley Dutch and eir Houses. Fleischmanns: Purple Mountain Press, 1999.

Morgan, William. e Abrams Guide to American House Styles. New York: Abrams, 2008.

Morrison, Hugh. Early American Architecture from the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period. New York: Oxford  University
Press, 1952.

Mudrick, MaryBeth, and Lawrence D. Smith. Federal Style Patterns 1780-1820 with CD-Rom. New York, NY: Wiley, 2005.

Newcomb, Rexford. e Old Mission Churches and Historic Houses of California. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1925.

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Newcomb, Rexford. Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory;: A study of early architecture in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, & part of Minnesota. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1950.

Newcomb, Rexford. Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

Newcomb, Rexford. Mediterranean Domestic Architecture for the United States.  New York City: Acanthus Press, 1999.

Parissien, Steven. e Georgian House in America and Britain. New York: Rizzoli, 2008.

Pierson, William. American Buildings and eir Architects: e Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles. New York: Anchor Books, 1976.

Reed, Henry Hope, and Herbert Small. e Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc.,
1983.

Reed, Henry Hope, editor.  e New York Public Library. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1986.

Reed, Henry Hope.  e United States Capitol: Its Architecture and Decoration. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004.

Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson. Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley Before 1776. New York: Dover, 1968.

Ri kind, Carole. Field Guide To American Architecture. New Jersey: Random House Value Publishing, 1987.

Stern, Robert A. M., Gregory Gilmartin and John Massengale. New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–
1915. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.

Stern, Robert A. M., Gregory Gilmartin and omas Mellins. New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars.
New York: Rizzoli, 1987.

Schuler, Stanley. Mississippi Valley Architecture: Houses of the Lower Mississippi Valley. FLancaster, PA: Schi fer Publishing, 1984.

e Houses We Live In: An Identi cation Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture. San Diego: under Bay Press,
2002.

Wilson, Richard Guy. e Colonial Revival House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

Stoney, Samuel Gaillard. Plantations of the Carolina Low Country. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

Architectural History – British

Adam, Robert and James. Works in Architecture, 3 volumes. London: 1778. Reprinted, New York: Dover Publications, 1980.

Cornforth, John. Early Georgian Interiors. e British Library: Paul Mellon Center, 2005.

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Cran eld, Ingrid. Georgian House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book (House Style). Cincinatti: David & Charles
Publishers, 2002.

Curl, James Stevens. Georgian Architecture. Cincinatti: David & Charles Publishers, 2002.

Gore, Alan and Ann.  e History of English Interiors. London: Phaidon, 1991.

Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork. Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd., Annotated edition, 1999.

Parissien, Stephen. Palladian Style. London: Phaidon Press, 2000.

Parissien, Stephen. Adam Style. London: Phaidon Press, 1994.

Parissien, Stephen. Regency Style. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.

Richardson, Sir Albert Edward. Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the XVIIIth and XIXth
Centuries.  London: B. T. Batsford, 1914. Reprinted as Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland. New York: W. W.
Norton & Co., 1982.

Strange, omas Arthur. An Historical Guide to English Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts. London: B. T.
Batsford, 1908. Reprinted as English Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts during the 17th and 18th Centuries. New
York: Bonanza Books, 1968.

Summerson, John. Georgian London. Revised ed. Italy: Paul Mellon Centre, 2003.

Watkin, David. English Architecture: A Concise History, WW Norton and Co Inc, New York, 2001

Architectural History – French

Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. Yale University Press; 5th Revised edition, 1999.

Bony, Jean. French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries. University of California Press, Second Impression edition, 1983.

Braham, Allan. e Architecture of the French Enlightenment. University of California Press, 1989.

Dennis, Michael. Court and Garden: From the French Hótel to the City of Modern Architecture. London: e Mit Press, 1988.

Donald, Elsie Burch. e French Farmhouse: Its History, Construction, and Regional Styles. Abbeville Press, 1955.

Drexler, Arthur. e Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, distributed by MIT Press, 1977.

Egbert, Donald. e Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture. Princeton University Press, 1980.

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Lemoine, Bertrand. Architecture in France 1800-1900. Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Middleton, Robin. Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-Century French Architecture. ames & Hudson, 1984.

Minne-Seve, Viviane. Romanesque & Gothic France: Art and Architecture. Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Rouyer, Eugene. French Architectural Ornament: From Versailles, Fontainebleau and Other Palaces. Dover Publications, 2008.

Scott, Katie. e rococo interior: decoration and social spaces in early eighteenth-century Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995

Strange, omas Arthur. An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Art. London: B. T.
Batsford, 1950. Reprinted as French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork, and Allied Arts during the 17th and 18th Centuries. New
York: Bonanza Books, 1968.

Sutcli fe, Antony. Paris: An Architectural History. Yale University Press, 1996.

Architectural History – Italian

Letarouilly, Paul. Edi ces de Rome Moderne. 11th ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

Letarouilly, Paul. e Vatican and Saint Peter’s Basilica of Rome. 1 ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Mayernik, David. Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Re lections on Renaissance Italy. Westview Press, 2003.

Murray, Peter.  e Architecture of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Schocken, 1986

Wittkower, Rudolf. Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600–1750. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973.

Architectural Monographs

Brown, Arthur, and Je frey T. Tilman. Arthur Brown Jr.: Progressive Classicist. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

Dowling, ElizabethMeredith. American Classicist: e Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

Greenberg, Allen. Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White 1879-1915: Student’s Edition. Architectural Book Publishing
Company, 1991. Originally published as A Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead, and White, 1879–1915, 4 volumes. NewYork: e
Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1915–1920. Reprinted, Da Capo Press, 1985.

Harris, Eileen.  e Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

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John, Richard.  omas Gordon Smith: e Rebirth of Classical Architecture. London: Andreas Papadakis, 2001.

John, Richard and David Watkin. John Simpson: e Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Other Works. London: Andreas
Papadakis, 2002.

Lindeberg, H. T. Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg. New York City: Acanthus Press, 1996.

Lowe, David Garrard. Stanford White’s New York. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.

Merthens, John H. American Splendor: e Architecture of Horace Trumbauer. New York: Acanthus Press, 2002.

Pennoyer, Peter and Ann Walker.  e Architecture of Delano and Aldrich. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Richardson, Margaret and Mary Anne Stevens, editor. John Soane, Architect. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1999.

Salny, Stephen M. Architecture of David Adler. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.

Stern, Robert A.M., edited by Charles D. Warren e Architecture of Charles A. Platt. New York City: Acanthus Press, 1998. Print.

White, Samuel G.  e Houses of McKim, Mead, and White. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.

White, Samuel G.  e Masterworks of McKim, Mead and White. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.

Wilhide, Elizabeth. Sir Edwin Lutyens: Designing in the English Tradition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Traditional Urbanism and Town Planning

Alminana, Robert, Andres Duany, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. New Civic Art : Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.

Collins, Christiane. Camillo Sitte: e Birth of Modern City Planning: With a translation of the 1889 Austrian edition of his City Planning
According to Artistic Principles. New York: Dover Publications, 2006.

Congress for the New Urbanism. Charter of the New Urbanism. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional Books, 1999.

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Je f Speck. Suburban Nation: e Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.
New York: North Point Press, 2001.

Duany, Andres, et. al. New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.

Duany, Andres, and Je f Speck. Smart Growth Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005.

Duany, Andres, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberck. Towns and Town-Making Principles. New York: Rizzoli, 2006.

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Hegemann, Werner, and Elbert Peets. e American Vitruvius: An Architects’ Handbook of Urban Design. New York: Dover
Publications, 2010.

Reps, John W. Town Planning in Frontier America. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1981.

Reps, John W. e Making of Urban America. A History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1992.

Reps, John W. Tidewater towns: city planning in colonial Virginia and Maryland, (Williamsburg architectural studies). Colonial Williams-
burg Foundation; distributed By e University Press Of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1972.

Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

e Allied Arts of Painting and Sculpture

Cox, Kenyon.  e Classic Point of View. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1980.

Rice, Pierce. Man as Hero: e Human Figure in Western Art. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987.

Preservation

Semes, Steven W. e Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation. New York: W.W. Nor-
ton & Co., 2009.

Hardy, Matthew. e Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism and Conservation in the Postwar World. Cambridge:  Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2009.

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