The Classical Language of Architecture

The 1965 compilation of six BBC radio lectures (1963) by Sir John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture is a 60-some page discussion of the origins of classical architecture and their movements through Antiquity, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Georgian periods. A discussion of the rules and the resulting elements in classical terms of the Orders, architectural harmony of design, and so on. In 2015 it remains in print in several countries, in illustrated editions of about 144 pages.

Summerson, John. The Classical Language of Architecture. in UK now Thames and Hudson World of Art series, etc. In US Boston: MIT Press, 1965, and other editions.