ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY volume 54: 2011 m m% K«.".» *ffi*I &*&* J . \ * >•; • > • . ..• . » • • . Jf*? • * $ at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core S O C I E T Y O F A R C H I T E C T U R A L H I S T O R I A N S O F G R E A T B R I T A I N The Alice D a v i s H i t c h c o c k M e d a l l i o n is presented annually to authors of outstanding contributions to the literature of architectural history. Recipients of the award have been: D A V I D B R O W N L E E J O H N H A R V E Y R O G E R STALLEY A N D R E W S A I N T C H A R L E S S A U M A R E Z S M I T H C H R I S T O P H E R W I L S O N E I L E E N H A R R I S & N I C H O L A S SAVAGE J O H N A L L A N C O L I N C U N N I N G H A M & P R U D E N C E W A T E R H O U S E M I L E S G L E N D I N N I N G & S T E F A N M U T H E S I U S R O B E R T H I L L E N B R A N D R O B I N EVANS I A N B R I S T O W D E R E K L I N S T R U M L I N D A F A I R B A I R N N I C H O L A S C O O P E R : P E T E R F E R G U S S O N & STUART H A R R I S O N M A R K W I L S O N J O N E S N I C O L A C O L D S T R E A M K A T H R Y N M O R R I S O N G E O R G I A C L A R K E P E T E R G U I L L E R Y D A V I D R O B I N S O N E I T A N K A R O L P E T E R D R A P E R M A R K G I R O U A R D The Society's E s s a y M e d a l is presented annually to the winner of the Society's essay competition. The regulations are available on the SAHGB website, under 'Awards and Grants'. Previous recipients of the medal have been: 1959 i 9 6 0 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 H. M. C O L V I N J O H N S U M M E R S O N KERRY D O W N E S J O H N F L E M I N G D O R O T H Y S T R O U D F. H . W. S H E P P A R D H. M. & J O A N TAYLOR N I K O L A U S P E V S N E R M A R K G I R O U A R D C H R I S T O P H E R H U S S E Y P E T E R C O L L I N S A. H. G O M M E & D. M. W A L K E R J O H N H A R R I S H E R M I O N E H O B H O U S E M A R K G I R O U A R D J. M O R D A U N T C R O O K & M. H. P O R T D A V I D W A T K I N A N T H O N Y B L U N T A N D R E W S A I N T P E T E R S M I T H T E D R U D D O C K A L L A N B R A H A M H O W A R D C O L V I N P E T E R T H O R N T O N M A U R I C E C R A I G W I L L I A M C U R T I S J I L L L E V E R 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987: 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 !995 1996 G O R D O N H I G G O T T N E I L J A C K S O N J O S E P H S H A R P L E S N o a w a r d w a s m a d e L A U R A JACOBUS T I M M O W L G I L E S W O R S L E Y N O a w a r d w a s m a d e N o a w a r d w a s m a d e M I C H A E L H A L L F R A N K S A L M O N C A T H E R I N E STEEVES S E A N SAWYER J O N A T H A N H U G H E S A N D R E W H O P K I N S 1997: P E T E R M A Y H E W 1998: A N D R E W ROYLE 1999: H E N R Y D I E T R I C H F E R N A N D E Z 2000: E L E A N O R TOLLFREE 2001: K A T H R Y N FERRY 2002: A L E X B R E M N E R 2003: J A M E S W E E K S 2004: T O M N I C K S O N 2005: N o a w a r d w a s m a d e 2006: M A T T H E W W H I T F I E L D 2008: J A M E S M A X W E L L S T E V E N S O N 2008: T R I S T R A M B A I N B R I D G E 2009: P H I L I P A S P I N 2010: J E S S I C A H O L L A N D Cover image: Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, foyer in i%8 (Colin Westwood/RIBA Library Photographs Collection) at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN Founded 1956: incorporated 1964 The Society exists to encourage an interest in the history of architecture, to provide opportunities for the exchange and discussion of ideas related to this subject and to publish, in its journal, Architectural History, significant source material and the results of original research. OPFICERS A N D EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2 0 1 0 - 1 1 President: Malcolm Airs Chairman: Kathryn Morrison Past President: Frank Kelsall Honorary Secretary: Simon Green Honorary Treasurer: David Lermon Honorary Editors: Judi Loach, Alistair Fair Honorary Conference Secretaries: Olivia Horsfall Turner, Libby Wardle Honorary Events Secretaries: A n d r e w Martindale, Pete Smith Honorary Executive Committee Members: Sarah Whittingham, Nicholas Molyneux, Joanne O'Hara, Caroline Stanford Honorary Newsletter Editor: Lee Prosser Honorary Reviews Editor: Kathryn Morrison Honorary Publications Officer: Simon Oakes Honorary Education Officer: Julian Holder Honorary Publicity Officer: Jonathan Kewley Honorary Research Register: Kerry Bristol Honorary Membership Secretary: David McKinstry Honorary Website Manager: Robert Proctor ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY EDITORIAL TEAM 2 0 1 1 Honorary Editors: Judi Loach, Alistair Fair Deputy Editors: David Hemsoll, John Schofield All correspondence concerning the Society except applications for membership should be addressed to: Simon Green, RCAHMS, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh E H 8 9NX, or secretary@sahgb.org.uk Applications for membership should be sent to: (for individual membership) The Membership Secretary, SAHGB, Heritage House, PO Box 21, Baldock, Herts., SG7 5SH; (for institutional membership) David McKinstry, 6 Fitzroy Square, London W I T 5DX; alternatively membership can be obtained online, through the SAHGB website, at www.sahgb.org.uk/index.cfm/display _page / membership Proposals for papers for Architectural History should be e-mailed in the first instance to: Dr Alistair Fair, architecturalhistory@sahgb.org.uk Correspondence concerning the Society's Newsletter should be addressed to: Lee Prosser, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace, Apt. 25, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, KT8 9AU. Books for review in the Society's Newsletter should be sent to: Kathryn Morrison, English Heritage, Brooklands, 24 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BU, or reviewseditor@sahgb.org.uk Correspondence concerning purchase of the Society's publications, including printed copies of Architectual History, should be addressed to: outsetservices@googlemail.com copyright© 2011 Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and Authors I S S N : 0066-622X Produced by Outset Services Limited Boston Spa, West Yorkshire at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available mailto:secretary@sahgb.org.uk http://www.sahgb.org.uk/index.cfm/display mailto:architecturalhistory@sahgb.org.uk mailto:reviewseditor@sahgb.org.uk mailto:outsetservices@googlemail.com https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core CONTENTS THREE ROMANESQUE GREAT CHURCHES IN GERMANY, FRANCE AND ENGLAND, AND THE DISCIPLINE OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY by Eric Fernie 1 THE GEOMETRY OF A PIECE OF STRING by David Yeomans 23 MICHELANGELO'S LAURENTIAN LIBRARY: DRAWINGS AND DESIGN PROCESS by James G. Cooper 49 THE 'GREAT TEMPLE OF SOLOMON' AT STIRLING CASTLE by Ian Campbell and Aonghus MacKechnie 91 THE PRINTED ILLUSTRATION OF MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE I N PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE by Francesco Russo 119 'THE WINDOWS OF THIS CHURCH ARE OF SEVERAL FASHIONS': ARCHITECTURAL FORM AND HISTORICAL METHOD IN JOHN AUBREY'S 'CHRONOLOGIA ARCHITECTONICA' by Olivia Horsfall Turner 171 REMAKING THE SPACE: THE PLAN AND THE ROUTE IN COUNTRY-HOUSE GUIDEBOOKS FROM I 7 7 O TO 1 8 1 5 by Jocelyn Anderson 195 'OUR ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE': CONTESTING CATHEDRALS IN LATE GEORGIAN ENGLAND by Philip Aspin 213 ADAPTING GLASSHOUSES FOR HUMAN USE: ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIMENTATION IN PAXTON'S DESIGNS FOR THE 1 8 5 I GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM by Henrik Schoenefeldt 233 LETTING IN THE LIGHT: THE COUNCIL FOR ART AND INDUSTRY AND OLIVER HILL'S PIONEER SCHOOLS by Jessica Holland 275 COORDINATING METHOD AND ART: ALVAR AALTO AT PLAY by Harry Charrington 309 'A NEW IMAGE OF THE LIVING THEATRE': THE GENESIS AND DESIGN OF THE BELGRADE THEATRE, COVENTRY, I 9 4 8 - 5 8 by Alistair Fair 347 BUILDING ON THE BACKS: BASIL SPENCE, QUEENS' COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AND UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE AT MID-CENTURY by Louise Campbell 383 at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS PROFESSOR ERIC FERNIE is an architectural historian with a special interest in the Middle Ages, on which he has published widely. Before his retirement he was Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1995 to 2003. DR DAVID YEOMANS taught at the Liverpool and Manchester schools of architecture. He is an engineer with a Ph.D. in Architectural History and extensive experience of architectural conservation. He is the Vice Chairman of the Construction History Society and was formerly Secretary (now Honorary Member) of the International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH). DR JAMES G. COOPER is an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University where he teaches Architectural Design and Visual Communications in the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He studied Architecture at Ryerson University, Toronto. After six years of professional practice, he completed his Masters in Architecture at the University of Michigan (1992) and subsequently studied Architectural History at the University of Virginia (Masters degree, 1998; Ph.D., 2001). His research interests include: Ancient Greco-Roman Architecture and Urbanism; Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture and Urbanism; and nineteenth and early twentieth century European Architecture and Urbanism. PROFESSOR IAN CAMPBELL is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh. He has written several articles on aspects of Scottish and Irish Renaissance Architecture, the most recent being 'The Peripheries strike back: Romanesque and Early Gothic Revival as a reaction to Fourteenth-Century Marginalisation in Scotland, Ireland and Italy', in S. H o p p e (ed.) Stil und Bedeutung (Regensburg 2008). During 2010-12 he is Rudolf Wittkower Guest Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, where he is preparing an edition of Pirro Ligorio's Oxford Codex in collaboration with Professor Maria Luisa Madonna. DR AONGHUS MACKECHNIE is an architectural historian employed by Historic Scotland. His research has focussed on the Renaissance and Early Modern periods in Scotland and on the culture of the Highlands. He is author of Carragh-Chuimhne (2004), a study of Gaeldom's monuments, co-author (with Miles Glendinning) otAHistory of Scottish Architecture (1996) and Scottish Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2004), and with Audrey Dakin and Miles Glendinning is currently co-editing Scotland's Castle Culture (forthcoming, 2011). DR FRANCESCO RUSSO graduated in Liberal Arts (Lettere Moderne) at the University of Naples Federico II with a dissertation in History of Art Criticism, 'La fondazione del Duomo di Napoli attraverso le fonti, dal XII al XVII secolo'. He then secured a Doctoral Fellowship at the same university; his Ph.D. was entitled 'Lafortuna dei Primitivi nella letteratura erudita Campana. Napoli e Capua tra la fine del XVI e la meta del XVII secolo'. In 2007 he w o n the postdoctoral San Paolo Fellowhip at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) of Paris for work on Mabillon and Montfaucon's studies of Italian Medieval heritage. He subsequently obtained a post-doctoral teaching qualification in History of Art and is currently teaching that discipline in an Italian secondary school. He has published several articles in France and Italy on various aspects of antiquarianism and its consequences from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. DR OLIVIA HORSFALL TURNER studied History and History of Art at Cambridge and was awarded the Clare-Mellon Fellowship to Yale University were she took a Masters in History of Art. She studied for her Ph.D. at University College London, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. She is n o w an Architectural Investigator at at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS v English Heritage and a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in Britain, with a particular interest in antiquarianism, the after-lives of medieval buildings, and architectural description. JOCELYN ANDERSON studied History of Art and English at McGill University and is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. The working title of her dissertation is 'Remaking the Country House: Country-House Guidebooks in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'. In addition to her studies, she has taught at the Courtauld and she is a member of the editorial group of immediations, the Courtauld's peer-reviewed, student-run journal. She will be a visiting scholar at the Yale Center for British Art in the spring of 2012. PHILIP ASPIN studied History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he is now reading for a doctorate on the Gothic Revival in early 19th-century England. In 2009 h e w o n the SAHGB Hawksmoor Essay Medal with an earlier version of the article printed in this journal. DR HENRIK SCHOENEFELDT studied Architecture at the Prince's Foundation for Architecture, Portsmouth University and TU-Wien. In 2007 he was awarded an M.Phil, in Environmental Design at the University of Cambridge, where he recently completed a Ph.D. on the history of all-glass buildings in the nineteenth century. He was awarded the LKE Ozolins scholarship from the Royal Institute of British Architects and bursaries from the Kurt H a h n and Cambridge European Trusts. In September 2011 he takes u p the post of Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture at the University of Kent. DR JESSICA HOLLAND studied Architecture at the University of Portsmouth and recently completed her Ph.D. thesis on the Modernist buildings of the British architect Oliver Hill. She is currently undertaking further research into interwar British Modernism. In 2010 she w o n the SAHGB Hawksmoor Essay Medal with an earlier version of the article printed in this journal. DR HARRY CHARRINGTON is Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Bath. He studied Architecture at Cambridge and subsequently combined academic posts with practice, including time working at the office of Alvar Aalto and Co. in Finland. In 2008 he completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics on the social and artistic practice of the Aalto atelier, on which he has published widely. This subject continues to form a major part of his research interests, together with suburbia and the relationship of planning and design. DR ALISTAIR FAIR is a Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. He studied Modern History at Oxford and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art before completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge. The subject of his doctoral thesis, an architectural history of British theatre between 1926 and 1991, reflected his particular interest in twentieth-century public and institutional buildings. Forthcoming publications include an article on 1970s theatres in Twentieth-Century Architecture 10 (2011) and a co-written book, Geometry and Atmosphere: theatre buildings from vision to reality (Ashgate, 2011). In addition to continuing work on theatres, he is also investigating hospital architecture as part of a multi-disciplinary EPSRC-funded project. DR LOUISE CAMPBELL is Reader in History of Art at the University of Warwick. Her publications include Coventry Cathedral: Art and Architecture in Post-war Britain (Oxford, 1996) and Twentieth- Century Architecture and its Histories published for the SAHGB in 2000; she is co-editor with Miles Glendinning and Jane Thomas of Sir Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects (RIBA, 2011, forthcoming). Her current research investigates British architecture and public art in the post-war period. She has been awarded a Paul Mellon Centre Senior Fellowship for 2011-12 in order to complete a book on the history of artists' habitats. at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:06:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00003968 https://www.cambridge.org/core