The Persistence of the Classical : Essays on Architecture Presented to David Watkin (Hardcover)

Foreword - Frank Salmon * Vitruvian Symmetriae: The Debate about Method -- Richard John * Classical Sanctuaries for Catholic London: Three and a Quarter Centuries of Continuity -- Roderick O' Donnell * The 'dissociation of sensibility' and the 'tyranny of intellect': T.S. Eliot, John Summerson and Christopher Wren -- Anthony Geraghty * The Classical Theory of Hope Bagenal -- Alan Powers * David Watkin and the Classical Idea -- Roger Scruton * Some Pages from Marie-Joseph Peyre's Roman Album -- Robin Middleton * Fratri Optimo: The Tale of a Brotherly Gift -- John Harris * C.R. Cockerell and the Discovery of Entasis in the Columns of the Parthenon -- Frank Salmon * The Design and Construction of the National Gallery -- Charles Saumarez Smith * Charles Barry's Designs for Northumberland House, 1852-55 -- Manolo Guerci * Neo-Georgian: The De-Gothicizing of Wilton House -- John Martin Robinson * "A Vindication of Classical Principles": Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964) -- John Wilton-Ely * Classicism without Columns -- Gavin Stamp * Complexities and Contradictions of Post-Modernist Classicism: Notes on the Museum of Modern Art's 1975 Exhibition The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Barry Bergdoll * The English Vision: The Picturesque Revisited -- Christopher Woodward * Bibliography of David John Watkin *