Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• USING THE BOOK
• 1. CLASSICAL HERITAGE
• ORIGINS
• EGYPT
• THE GREEK TEMPLE
• THE PERFECTION OF GREECE
• HELLENISM
• IMPERIAL ROME
• LATE ROME
• BYZANTIUM
• OUT OF THE DARK AGES
• THE BIRTH OF GOTHIC
• THE RENAISSANCE
• HIGH RENAISSANCE
• MANNERISM
• THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH
• INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE
• PALLADIO AND HIS LEGACY
• ROCOCO
• NEO-CLASSICISM
• RENAISSANCE REVIVAL
• THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
• BAROQUE REVIVAL AND THE BEAUX ARTS
• BETWEEN THE WARS
• A NEW BEGINNING
• 2. THE CLASSICAL BUILDING
• THE TEMPLE
• BASILICAS AND THE ROUND TEMPLES
• RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CHURCHES
• HOUSES OF ANTIQUITY
• RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PALACES AND VILLAS
• THE SMALL TOWN HOUSE
• THE SMALL COUNTRY HOUSE
• NEW USES, NEW INTERPRETATION
• NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• CURIOSITIES
• 3. THE ORDERS
• THE ORDERS
• THE DORIC ORDER: ORIGINS
• THE GREEK DORIC ORDER
• ROMAN AND RENAISSANCE DORIC
• THE USE OF THE DORIC ORDER
• THE TUSCAN ORDER
• THE USE OF THE TUSCAN ORDER
• THE IONIC ORDER: ORIGINS
• THE IONIC ORDER
• THE IONIC CAPITAL
• THE USE OF THE IONIC ORDERTHE CORINTHIAN ORDER: ORIGINS
• THE CORINTHIAN ORDER
• THE CORINTHIAN CAPITAL
• THE USE OF THE CORINTHIAN ORDER
• THE COMPOSITE ORDER
• THE USE OF THE COMPOSITE ORDER
• VARIATIONS AND INVENTIONS: COLUMNS
• VARIATIONS AND INVENTIONS: THE CAPITAL AND BASE
• THE COLUMN: REFINEMENTS
• THE PILASTER
• COLUMN SPACING
• 4. THEORIES OF PROPORTION
• PROPORTIONAL SYSTEMS
• SIMPLE PROPORTIONS
• COMPLEX PROPORTIONS
• 5. MOULDINGS
• SIMPLE MOULDINGS
• FURTHER SIMPLE MOULDINGS
• COMPLEX MOULDINGS
• EGG AND DARK AND TONGUE AND DART
• FURTHER COMPLEX MOULDING DECORATED
• 6. ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
• THE ORDERS IN ORDER
• MANIPULATING THE ORDERS
• GIANT ORDERS
• CHANGING SCALE
• 7. HIDDEN ORDERS
• PROGRESSIVE OMISSIONS: THE ORDER
• PROGRESIVE OMISSIONS: THE BUILDING
• PROGRESSIVE OMISSIONS: THE INTERIOR
• SELECTIVE EXTERIOR DETAILS
• 8. THE PEDIMENT
• THE TEMPLE ROOF
• TYPES OF PEDIMENT
• DIFFERENT USES OF THE PEDIMENT
• PEDIMENTS AND DESIGN
• 9. THE ARCH
• THE ARCH IN ANTIQUITY
• THE CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHES
• ARCHES AND THE ORDERS
• ARCHES AND THE ORDERS: VARIATIONS
• ARCHES AND THE ORDERS: FURTHER VARIATIONS
• TYMPANUM AND SPANDREL
• ARCHES AND VAULTS
• ARCHES AND DESIGN 1
• ARCHES AND DESIGN 2
• MIXING ARCHES AND SETTING OUT
• 10. THE DOME
• DOMES OF ANTIQUITY
• POST-RENAISSANCE DOMES
• TYPES OF DOME
• COMPLEX DOMES
• FALSE DOMES
• HALF-DOMES, TRIBUNES, APSES AND NICHES
• INSIDE THE DOME
• 11. RUSTICATION
• ORIGINS
• TYPES OF RUSTICATION
• RUSTICATED ORDERS
• RUSTICATED WALLS AND OPENINGS
• RUSTICATED BUILDINGS
• 12. DOORS AND PORCHES
• BUILDINGS AND ENTRANCES
• DOORS OF ANTIQUITY
• PORCHES OF ANTIQUITY
• DOORS AND THE ORDERS
• DOORS AND BRACKETS
• DOOR-SURROUNDS 1
• DOOR-SURROUNDS 2
• DOUBLE-HEIGHT DOOR-SURROUNDS
• PORCHES AND PORTICOS
• A DORIC DOOR-SURROUND
• A DORIC PORCH
• 13. WINDOWS
• WINDOWS AND DESIGN
• WINDOWS OF ANTIQUITY
• THE VOCABULARY OF THE WINDOW
• BOW, BAY AND ORIEL WINDOWS
• 14. BRACKETS
• SCROLLED BRACKETS
• OTHER BRACKETS
• SCROLLED BRACKETS: VARIATIONS
• SCROLLED BRACKETS SIMPLIFIED
• SETTING OUT A SCROLLED BRACKET
• 15. THE FIREPLACE
• ORIGINS
• FIREPLACES AND THE ORDERS
• THE FIREPLACE: VARIATIONS AND INVENTIONS
• FIREPLACES AND SCULPTURE
• A DORIC FIREPLACE
• A CORINTHIAN FIREPLACE
• 16. BALLUSTRADES AND RAILINGS
• ANTIQUITY AND THE RENAISSANCE
• SETTING OUT BALLUSTRADES
• BALUSTER VARATIONS
• PIERCED WALLS
• STGAIR RAILS
• METAL RAILS AND SCREENS
• TURNED RAILS
• 17. THE SKYLINE
• DESIGN FOR THE SKYLINE
• BALLS, URNS AND PINE-CONES
• FINIALS, OBELISKS AND TROPHIES
• 18. THE NATURAL WORLD
• THE ACANTHUS
• PLANT DECORATION
• GARLANDS AND WREATHS
• ANTHEMION, ROSETTE AND PATERA
• ANIMALS
• THE HUMAN FORM
• 19. GEOMETRIC PATTERS
• KEYS AND WAVES
• GUILLOCHES, DISCS AND CONTRASTS
• 20. CLASSICAL DESIGN
• SYMMETRY AND AXIS
• GEOMETRY AND SPACE
• VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL HIERACHY
• EMPHASIS AND DETAIL
• FURTHER READING
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX