Pearl Academy

Original ed. published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 826-833) and index.

V.1. Italy / Veronica Biermann [and others] : Leon Battista Alberti ; Antonio Averlino, called Filarete ; Fracesco di Giorgio Martini ; Anonymous ; Fra Giovanni Giocondo da Verona ; Cesare Ceariano ; Sebastiano Serlio ; Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola ; Pietro Cataneo ; Daniele Barbaro ; Andrea Palladio ; Vincenzo Scamozzi ; Guarino Guarini ; Andrea Pozzo ; Domenico de' Rossi ; Giuseppe Galle Bibiena ; Gionvanni Battista Piranesi ; Bernardo Antonio Vittone ; Francesco Milizia and Giovanni Battista Cipriani -- France / Christian Freigang, Jarl Kremeier : Villard de Honnecourt ; Jean Martin ; Philibert de l'Orme ; Jacques Androuet du Cerceau ; Pierre Le Muet ; Roland Fréart de Chambray ; Claude Perrault ; François Blondel ; Augustin Charles D'Aviler ; Jean-Louis de Cordemoy ; Charles-Etienne Briseux ; Germain Boffrand ; Marc-Antoine Laugier ; Marie-Joseph Peyre ; Claude-Nicolas Ledoux ; Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand ; Jean Baptiste Rondelet and Guillaume Abel Blouet ; Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Spain / Barbara Borngässer Klein : Diego de Sagredo ; Juan Bautista Villalpando ; Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás ; Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz.

V.2. England / Carsten Ruhl : John Sute ; Henry Wotton ; Colen Campbell ; James Gibbs ; Robert Morris ; Isaac Ware ; William Chambers ; Augustus Welby Pugin ; John Ruskin -- Germany / Bernd Evers, Jürgen Zimmer : Albrecht Dürer ; Walther Rivius or Ryff ; Hans Blum ; Hans Vredeman de Vries ; Daniel Speckle ; Wendel Dietterlin ; Joseph Furttenbach the Elder ; Abraham Leuthner von Grundt ; Nicolaus Goldmann and Leonhard Christoph Sturm ; Paulus Decker ; Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach ; Friedrich Weinbrenner ; Karl Friedrich Schinkel ; Leo von Klenze ; Christian Carl Josias Bunsen, Johann Gottfried Gutensohn ; Johann Michael Knapp ; Heinrich Hübsch ; Gottfried Semper ; Friedrich Hoffstadt ; Carl Alexander Heideloff ; Georg Gottlob Ungewitter -- 20th century / Gilbert Lupfer, Jürgen Paul, Paul Sigel : Camillo Sitte ; Ebenezer Howard ; Adolf Loos ; Tony Garnier ; Bruno Taut ; Le Corbusier ; Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson ; Walter Gropius ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Pual Schmitthenner ; Sigfried Giedion ; Council of Ministers of the GDR ; Archigram ; Kisho Kurokawa ; Aldo Rossi ; Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour ; Charles A. Jencks ; Rem Koolhaas.

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