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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> DESPITE ITS rather unwieldy character this book when it first appeared in 1949 was unexpectedly given a very friendly reception. To my surprise it caused more than a polite stir. Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW that the first result of this book was ‘to dispose once and for all of the hedonist or purely aesthetic theory of Renaissance architecture’ and this defined my intention in a nutshell. The book is concerned with purely historical studies of the period 1450 to 1580 but it was my most satisfying experience to have seen its impact on a young generation of architects. The influence a book has upon its readers is to a certain extent in- tangible and impossible to measure precisely. Yet I may claim that within the twelve years since its appearance many of the basic tenets have been accepted popularized enlarged upon transmuted and also attacked (which is surely a fruitful way of activating and generating fresh thought). It would not serve much purpose to put this assertion fully to the present reader’s test. May it suffice to indicate that such diverse publications as Walter Paatz’s Die Kunst der Renaissance in Italien (Stuttgart 1953) Ezra D. Ehrenkrantz’s The Modular Number Feliks through Standardisation