1. Words Fail Me: architectural experience beyond language
- Author
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Anderson, Christy
- Subjects
Medieval & Renaissance Studies ,Colbert ,architecture française ,architecture civile ,architectural history ,Vitruve ,Serlio ,ART015000 ,Arts & Humanities ,Fiammelli ,Scamozzi ,architecture et histoire ,bâtiment ,AC ,Vignole ,Blondel ,Alberti ,Académie d’architecture ,Le Muet ,patrimoine architectural et urbain ,Perrault ,architecte ,classicisme ,ordres - Abstract
Fig. 1. Inigo Jones’s annotations on the Corinthian order in Book I of Andrea Palladio, I Quattro libri dell’architettura (Venice, 1601) The Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford. When we open up the pages of the books that once belonged to the English architect Inigo Jones (1573-1652), we are bombarded with words. Along each margin and across the plates themselves, and in the blank spaces of the page, are notes by Jones (fig. 1). The densest annotations are in his copy of Andrea ...
- Published
- 2017