matthew walker, Architects & Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England

The book discusses the interaction between architects’ classical culture and their practice in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in different forms: practising, collecting, discovering, inventing architecture. The first chapter, “Practising Architecture,” defines the rise of gentlemen architects, by comparison with master masons on the one hand and classical scholars on the other, as a context – though the term of “profession” is perhaps too precise for those days. Those w...