History of Architectural Theory

Title	History of Architectural Theory
Author	Hanno-Walter Kruft
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	Princeton Architectural Press, 1994
ISBN	1568980108, 9781568980102
Length	706 pages As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive. 克魯夫特著的『建築理論史：從維特魯威到當今』一書．中文譯本有698頁，全書圖文合計169萬字之多．雖然作者于1993年過世，此書德文版在1991年出第三版，經典性巨著．西方建築理論的建構，是始自古羅馬的維特魯威，約二千多年前，他提出建築的三要素：實用，堅固，美觀． Contents Preface 7 Foreword to the English edition 11 What is architectural theory? 13 Vitruvius and architectural theory in Antiquity 21 The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages 30 Leone Battista Alherti 41 Quattrocento theory after Alherti S i 51 Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance 66 The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century 119 219 Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth 229 Concepts of the garden  257 Nineteenth century France and the Ecole des Beaux Arts 272 Germany in the nineteenth century 290 England in the nineteenth century 323 from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School 345 189051945 364 Sixteenth century codification 73 Palladio and the North Italian Humanists 83 The Counter Reformation Baroque and Neo classicism 93 The theory of fortification 109 France in the sixteenth century 118 The Classical synthesis in seventeenthcentury France 124 The foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the 128 Relativist architectural aesthetics the Enlightenment and 141 Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century 166 The Germanspeaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth 172 The Italian contrihution in the eighteenth century 194 Eighteenth century views of Antiquity 208 1900 1945 393 Futurism and Rationalism 403 The Soviet Union 415 The United States in the first half of the twentieth century 424 Since 1945 434 Notes including texts of quotations in the original language 447 Plates 473 Bibliography 613 Supplement to the Bibliography 674 English language translations of sources 68 I 681 Copyright