Axial Planning in Architecture
Dec 23, 2015
Axial Planning in Architecture
Typical child’s drawing of a house
The Baths of Diocletian, Rome (212-216AD), from Serlio
Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD
Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD
Timber Halls based on Sung
Dynasty building standards,
between 857 and 1697AD(from Norman
Crowe, Nature and the Idea of the Man-
made World, MIT Press, 1995)
Bayleaf Farmhouse, c.1405-30, now at Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton,
West Sussex
Bayleaf Farmhouse
Essex House plans and massing, c.1500-1700, from M W Barley, The English Farmhouse and
Cottage, Routledge, 1961
Vernacular Revival in late 19th century America
Elihu Cole House, Nantucket, 1722 and Redcote, York Harbour,Maine, 1882, from Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994
Palladio, Villa Capra (‘La Rotonda’), Vicenza, 1566-70, and Julian Bicknell, Henbury Hall,
Cheshire, 1984-90
Stage design by Inigo Jones, c.1615
View of Greenwich, 1670, showing Queen’s House, by Inigo Jones, 1616-35, and King Charles
Block, by John Webb, 1662-9
Royal Naval Hospital and Queen’s House, Greenwich, Chapel and Painted Hall by Sir
Christopher Wren, 1698-1707
English Palladianism: Wanstead House, Essex, alternative designs by Colen Campbell, 1715-20
Holkham Hall, Norfolk, by William Kent, begun 1734
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Plan of a Magnificent College,from Opera Varie, c.1750
Scene from Gladiator, 2001
Hotel in Avignon,
France, by Jean-Baptiste
Franque, 1730, from the
Encyclopédie by Diderot and
d’Alembert, 1776-7
Hotel in Avignon,
France, by Jean-Baptiste
Franque, 1730, from the
Encyclopédie by Diderot and
d’Alembert, 1776-7
Hôtel Guimard, Paris, by C. N. Ledoux, 1770
Hôtel Guimard, plans and section
Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the
Academies, 1786
Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the
Academies, 1786
J. N. L. Durand, ‘Marche à suivre dans la composition d’un Projet quelconque’ (Procedure to follow when composing any sort of buidling),
from Précis des Leçons, 1813
Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux
Arts
Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux
Arts
John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, 1826
John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, 1826
John Nash, Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, 1822
John Nash, York Gate, Regent’s Park, 1819
John Nash, Cronkhill, Shropshire, 1802
Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, New Delhi, 1910-30
Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, 1910-30
Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, 1910-30