Title: Axial Planning in Architecture
1Axial Planning in Architecture
2Typical childs drawing of a house
3The Baths of Diocletian, Rome (212-216AD), from
Serlio
4Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD
5Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD
6Timber 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)
7Bayleaf Farmhouse, c.1405-30, now at Weald and
Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, West Sussex
8Bayleaf Farmhouse
9Essex House plans and massing, c.1500-1700, from
M W Barley, The English Farmhouse and Cottage,
Routledge, 1961
10Vernacular 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
11Palladio, Villa Capra (La Rotonda), Vicenza,
1566-70, and Julian Bicknell, Henbury Hall,
Cheshire, 1984-90
12Stage design by Inigo Jones, c.1615
13View of Greenwich, 1670, showing Queens House,
by Inigo Jones, 1616-35, and King Charles Block,
by John Webb, 1662-9
14Royal Naval Hospital and Queens House,
Greenwich, Chapel and Painted Hall by Sir
Christopher Wren, 1698-1707
15English Palladianism Wanstead House, Essex,
alternative designs by Colen Campbell, 1715-20
16Holkham Hall, Norfolk, by William Kent, begun 1734
17Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Plan of a Magnificent
College,from Opera Varie, c.1750
18Scene from Gladiator, 2001
19Hotel in Avignon, France, by Jean-Baptiste
Franque, 1730, from the Encyclopédie by Diderot
and dAlembert, 1776-7
20Hotel in Avignon, France, by Jean-Baptiste
Franque, 1730, from the Encyclopédie by Diderot
and dAlembert, 1776-7
21Hôtel Guimard, Paris, by C. N. Ledoux, 1770
22Hôtel Guimard, plans and section
23Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the
Academies, 1786
24Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the
Academies, 1786
25J. N. L. Durand, Marche à suivre dans la
composition dun Projet quelconque (Procedure to
follow when composing any sort of buidling), from
Précis des Leçons, 1813
26Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters
of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts
27Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters
of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts
28John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, 1826
29John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, 1826
30John Nash, Sussex Place, Regents Park, 1822
31John Nash, York Gate, Regents Park, 1819
32John Nash, Cronkhill, Shropshire, 1802
33Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, New
Delhi, 1910-30
34Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroys House,
New Delhi, 1910-30
35Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroys House,
New Delhi, 1910-30