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Colen Campbell war ein bahnbrechender Architekt schottischer Herkunft, der den größten Teil seiner Karriere in England verbrachte. Er gilt als Begründer des Georgianischen Stils.
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England.
Colen Campbell Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Containing The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, In Great Britain, With Variety of New Designs; in 200 large Folio Plates, Engraven by the best Hands; and Drawn either from the Buildings themselves, or the Original Designs of the ...
Colen Campbell (British, Brodie, Scotland 1676–1729 London) 1725 Vitruvius Britannicus or the British Architect, the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, in Great Britain,...
Colen Campbell was perhaps more responsible for the growth in popularity of Palladian architecture in England than any single architect. Together with his patron, Lord Burlington, Campbell transformed a nation's vision of what a grand stately home should be, and helped shape the style that became the norm for the grand country houses of 18th ...
Carefully compiled and finely executed, Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus was highly acclaimed. It became the guidebook to the Neo Palladian style of architecture and stands as an important record of some of the finest achievements in British architecture of the eighteenth century.
Advocating the judgment “truly of the Merit of Things by the Strength of Reason,” his heroes were Vitruvius, Palladio, and Inigo Jones; his villains, the architects of the Italian Baroque: “The Italians can no more… Read More.
