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The article offers information on the architectural restoration of the Radley Hall in Oxfordshire, England. The Radley Hall is a fine baroque country house made by John Stonehouse of Radley and William Townesend and Bartholomew Peisley of Oxford on June 28, 1721. The paper also focuses on the characteristic baroque plan of such architecture to find a late eighteenth-century plan. It is noted that the house has two plans in which the front door leads directly to the garden door designed to help bring the sunlight into the north-facing hall.

The article discusses the aspects of Roman Baroque architectural decoration. It examines a small and neglected area of architectural decoration such as the door and window. It tries to analyze the relation between architectural treatises and actual buildings and to determine the extent the middle ground between theory and practice can be filled in with a common law of architecture. This paper also attempts to indicate that Francesco Borromini's innovation depends on a harmful manipulation of it. Sketches or architectural first principles that produced every Roman Baroque architecture are also highlighted.

The article discusses the architectural history of Roman Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea or Golden House explored by Charles Cameron in 1768 in Italy. Cameron's folio volume "The Baths of the Romans," published in 1772 was one of the only four books produced which dealt with the remains of the Roman as opposed to Greek sites. It is asserted that what he understood to be the ruins of the Baths of Titus were those of the Baths of Trajan or the remains of the Golden House. However, confusion on the site history was removed by archeologist Rodolfo Lanciani in 1895. Yet, this paper argued that they have been delinquent in overlooking the evidence offered by Cameron's description of the Domus Aurea.

The article examines the architectural history of the Blickling Hall, a Jacobean building, in Norfolk, England. It discusses various extensive building accounts from the Lothian papers in the Norfolk Record Office and surviving documents concerning the mansion's construction and personnel involve, such as the full summary drawn up by Richard Burton, the steward of Sir Henry Hobart, the first Baronet of the Blickling Hall. The architectural drawings of the house provided by the master craftsmen Robert Lying, which shows the design for a banqueting house in the east garden, and other documents which includes the total expenditures and service contracts are presented

The article focuses on the remodeling of the eighteenth-century Hopetoun House in West Lothian, Scotland. It was inferred that the reconstruction of the house was carried out by various architects including Tobis Bachope on December 28, 1698, William Bruce between 1699 and 1702 and William Adam between 1721 and 1746. It shows that detailed information on the house's architectural design was recovered through building papers and the design of the building published in "Vitruvius Britannicus" and "Vitruvius Scoticus." In addition, the contibutions of the architects in the reconstruction of the house were also discussed.

The article offers a profile of 20th-century British architect and urban planner Graeme Shankland. Information is provided on Shankland's connections with the British political left, his focus on preserving Britain's historical buildings is lauded, and criticism of Shankland's urban planning strategies by other architects is offered.

An essay is presented which discusses regionalism in modern architecture in Spain during the 20th century. An overview of the Spanish architect Miguel Fisac, including his perspective on architecture in Spain, his critique of Historicism and Functionalism and his design for the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Madrid, Spain, is provided.

The article discusses the architectural authorship of the mid 18th century design of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, with a particular focus on the architect William Kent. The role that the architects the Earl of Burlington and Thomas Coke (who is also referred to as Baron Lovell, Earl of Leicester and Lord Leicester) played in designing the Holkham Hall is discussed. An overview of the architectural researcher Leopold Schmidt's perspective on the Holkham Hall's authorship is provided.