Axial Planning in Architecture

Typical child’s drawing of a house

The Baths of Diocletian, Rome (212-216AD), from Serlio

Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD

Typical House in Pompeii, pre 79AD

Timber 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)

Bayleaf Farmhouse, c.1405-30, now at Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton,

West Sussex

Bayleaf Farmhouse

Essex House plans and massing, c.1500-1700, from M W Barley, The English Farmhouse and

Cottage, Routledge, 1961

Vernacular 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

Palladio, Villa Capra (‘La Rotonda’), Vicenza, 1566-70, and Julian Bicknell, Henbury Hall,

Cheshire, 1984-90

Stage design by Inigo Jones, c.1615

View of Greenwich, 1670, showing Queen’s House, by Inigo Jones, 1616-35, and King Charles

Block, by John Webb, 1662-9

Royal Naval Hospital and Queen’s House, Greenwich, Chapel and Painted Hall by Sir

Christopher Wren, 1698-1707

English Palladianism: Wanstead House, Essex, alternative designs by Colen Campbell, 1715-20

Holkham Hall, Norfolk, by William Kent, begun 1734

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Plan of a Magnificent College,from Opera Varie, c.1750

Scene from Gladiator, 2001

Hotel in Avignon,

France, by Jean-Baptiste

Franque, 1730, from the

Encyclopédie by Diderot and

d’Alembert, 1776-7

Hotel in Avignon,

France, by Jean-Baptiste

Franque, 1730, from the

Encyclopédie by Diderot and

d’Alembert, 1776-7

Hôtel Guimard, Paris, by C. N. Ledoux, 1770

Hôtel Guimard, plans and section

Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the

Academies, 1786

Charles Percier, Project for a Palace of the

Academies, 1786

J. N. L. Durand, ‘Marche à suivre dans la composition d’un Projet quelconque’ (Procedure to follow when composing any sort of buidling),

from Précis des Leçons, 1813

Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux

Arts

Charles Garnier, A Building for the Headquarters of a State Bank, 1899, Paris, Ecole des Beaux

Arts

John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, 1826

John Nash, Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, 1826

John Nash, Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, 1822

John Nash, York Gate, Regent’s Park, 1819

John Nash, Cronkhill, Shropshire, 1802

Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, New Delhi, 1910-30

Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, 1910-30

Sir Edwin Lutyens, plan of the Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, 1910-30