The Classical Language of Architecture

The Classical Language of Architecture is a 1965 compilation of six BBC radio lectures given in 1963 by Sir John Summerson.

[1] It is a 60-some page discussion of the origins of classical architecture and its movement through Antiquity, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Georgian periods.

A discussion of the rules and elements in classical terms of the Orders, architectural harmony of design, are included.

For the original radio broadcasts the BBC published a booklet with 60 photographs of the buildings discussed (or plans etc.

This article about a book on architecture or urbanism is a stub.