ロバート・モリス著『建築備忘録』の基礎的考察

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Robert Morris (c.1702-1754) is one of the most important writers of architecture during the first half of the eighteenth century in England. He published several books on architecture and one of them was "The Architectural Remembrancer", a pattern book, of 1751. Morris is usually regarded as a member of the Palladian circle which flourished till 1750s in England. It Is true that his theory of proportion of architecture was to some extent influenced by the theories of writers in the Italian Renaissance including that of Palladio, but the present author inquires into the contents of the book, especially plates, and makes it clear that Morris has more extensive direction of design than the Palladians have. His plates have various sources of motifs, including not only classical but also manneristic, baroque and furthermore Arabian or Chinese styles, and some drawings seem to be composed of simple forms like squares or circles, of which design method resembles the manner of Neo-classicism which was to be developed during the latter half of the century.
1998-04-09