Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory.(Book Review)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Sankovitch, Anne-Marie | Copyright information

MARIO CARPO

Trans. Sarah Benson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. 246 pp.; 27 b/w ills. $34.95

In 1985 Christof Thoenes and Hubertus Gunther published a groundbreaking essay whose answer to its provocative title--"The Architectural Orders: Rebirth or Invention?--came down squarely on the side of invention. (1) The authors demonstrated that the classical orders as we know them today were not, as had long been assumed, a formal code originally devised in antiq...

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