The collection catalogue fully describes the Fowler Collection of Early Architectural Books consisting of 493 titles by important architects published from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century. The Fowler Collection is one of the most important collections of early works on classical and Renaissance architecture in the United States. The original Fowler Architectural library was made up of four hundred and forty-eight items, featuring Vitruvius (40 editions, from 1495) and the five great protagonists of Renaissance architecture: Alberti (14 editions, from 1485), Serlio (33 editions, from 1545) Palladio (32 editions, from 1554), Vignola (39 editions, from 1563), and Scamozzi (13 editions, from 1583), as well as works by English, French and German architects.

The collection was given to the John Hopkins University in 1945 by Mr. Fowler.

Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."

This book examines experimental work by today's leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature.

This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.

"In this book Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis bring together 140 documents spanning a period from the year 1000 to the end of the eighteenth century. They argue that Modern Architectural thinking was created during this period, a wholly new forma mentis for conceiving buildings, landscapes, and cities. The material includes, in addition to the more predictable texts, key extracts from architectural treatises, handbooks, and textbooks, material from letters, articles from the press of the times, scientific memoirs, maxims, poems, plays, and novels. Their authors are equally varied architects, patrons, politicians, artists, poets, scientists, priests, philosophers, and journalists. Some describe and systematize, some argue and criticize, and a large number are eager to present new findings and new ways to construe and construct the world.".