The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture Presented to David Watkin

I:Theories, Histories and Writers: Richard John: Vitruvian Symmetriae: The Debate about Method p.1, Classical Sanctuaries for Catholic London: Three and a Quarter Centuries of Continuity by Roderick O’Donnell p.12, The ‘dissociation of sensibility and the ‘tyranny of intellect: T.S. Eliot, John Summerson and Christopher Wren by Anthony Geraghty p.26, The Classical Theory of Hope Bagenal by Alan Powers p.40, David Watkin and the Classical Idea by Roger Scruton p.56, II: Neo – Classical and Nineteenth century Studies: by Robin Middleon Some Pages from Marie-Joseph Peyres Roman Album p.73, Fratri Optimo: The Tale of a Brotherly Gift by John Harris p.98, C.R. Cockerell and the Discovery of Entasis in the Columns of the Parthenon by Frank Salmon p.106, The Design and Construction of the National Gallery by Charles Saumarez Smith p.124, Charles Barrys Designs for Northumberland House, 1852-55 by Manolo Guerci p.136, III: Classicism and the Picturesque in the Twentieth Century: Neo-Georgian: The De-Gothicizing of Wilton House by John Martin Robinson p.153, “A Vindication of Classical Principles”: Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964) by John Wilton-Ely p.164, Classicism without Columns by Gavin Stamp p.183 Complexities and Contradictions of Post - Modernist Classicism: Notes on the Museum of Modern Arts 1975 Exhibition The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by Barry Bergdoll p.202, The English Vision: The Picturesque Revisited by Christopher Woodward p.218, Bibliography of David John Watkin 1961-2008 p.229