John Summerson

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1.		The Complete Guide to Climbing (By Bike) from Brigham Distributing Price: $12.21 Customer Review: If you enjoy the challenge of going vertical on your bike then this book is a must have in your cycling library. Good descriptions with directions, vertical profiles, and some pictures of many great rides in the US. The book can be good motivator to see what is out there and to challenge any rider... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Classical Language of Architecture from The MIT Press Price: $16.20 Customer Review: This is the best way to learn about the classical sensibility in architecture -- as well as art and sculpture. Based on Summerson's radio lectures, this book has itself reached the status of being a classic! I assigned it for years, and students never failed to appreciate its brevity, insight and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $16.95 Customer Review: Certain architectural writers are a pleasure to read. John Summerson is one of them, approaching "la creme de la creme." Few can match him in terms of erudition, clarity of expressed thought, and sheer elegance of language. I think all students - after their first basic history courses - ought to... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Architecture in Britain: 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) from Yale University Press Price: $35.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (World of Art) from Thames & Hudson Price: $14.95 Customer Review: This is a useful opening survey of the architecture of this period. It is now quite old and has been largely superseded by numerous individual studies of buildings, period, and architects (including, for example, recent treatments of Ledoux and Boullée). It is basically satisfactory on the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		A New Description of Sir John Soane's Museum from The Campfield Press	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	Concerning Architecture - Essays on Architectural Writers and Writing Presented to Nikolaus Pevsner from Penguin Books	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Inigo Jones (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) from Paul Mellon Center BA Price: $35.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Georgian London (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) from Paul Mellon Centre BA Price: $18.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Georgian London: An Architectural Study. from 1962	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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