UNIT 1 MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO
"The Origins of the Three Orders, and the Proportions of the Corinthian Capital" ( c. 27 BC ), from The Ten Books on Architecture.
UNIT 2 CENNINO D'ANDREA CENNINI
"Methods of Casting" (c.1400), from The Craftsman's Handbook.
UNIT 3 GIORGIO VASARI
"Preface to the Third Part" (1550), from The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,Sculptors, and Architects.
UNIT 4 WILLIAM HOGARTH
"Preface" (1753), from the Analysis of Beauty.
UNIT 5 A.WELBY PUGIN
"On Metal-work" (1841), from The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture.
UNIT 6 GOTTFRIED SEMPER
"Science, Art, and Industry"(1852), from Gottfried Semper: The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings.
UNIT 7 OWEN JONES
"General Principles in the Arrangement of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts"(1856), from the Grammar of Ornament.
UNIT 8 JOHN RUSKIN
"Modern Manufacture and Design"(1859),from The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art,and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture.
UNIT 9 WILLIAM MORRIS
"The Lesser Arts"(1877), from William
Morris: Selected Writings and Designs.
UNIT 10 ALOIS RIEGL
"The Geometric Style"(1893), from Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament.
UNIT 11 ADOLF LOOS
"Ornament and Crime"(1908), from Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture.
UNIT 12 WALTER GROPIUS
"The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus"(1923), from Idee and Aufbau des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar.
UNIT 13 LE CORBUSIER
"Type-Needs: Type-Furniture"(1925), from
The Decorative Art of Today.
UNIT 14 HENRIFOCILLON
"Forms in the Realm of Space"(1934), from The Life of Forms in Art.
UNIT 15 SIBYL MOHOLY-NAGY
"Introduction"(1953), from Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook.
UNIT 16 NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
"Art and Industry"(1968), from The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design.
UNIT 17 E.H.GOMBRICH
"Motifs and Meanings"(1979), from The
Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art.
UNIT 18 ADRIAN FORTY
"Design, Designers and the Literature of Design"(1986), from Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750.
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