A History of Architectural Theory: From Vitruvius to the Present

By Hanno-Walter Kruft

Book Overview

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0302006222
• ISBN13: 9780302006221
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Zwemmer
• Length: 706 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Only Survey of Its Kind

Though outdated in significant ways -- with the entire second half essentially eclipsed by Harry Mallgrave's stunningly comprehensive history of modern architectural theory (Cambridge, 2005) -- this is still worth owning and reading for the material from Vitruvius to Perrault. The enormous bibliography is, due to its cumbersome organization, rather daunting and not nearly as useful as it should be. Maddening as it is, it...