ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

Volume 4.5:2002

The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion is presented annually to authors of outstanding contributions to the literature of architectural history. Recipients of the award have been:

1959: H. M. COLVIN 1981: HOWARD COLVIN i960: JOHN SUMMERSON 1982: PETER THORNTON 1961: KERRY DOWNES 1983: MAURICE CRAIG 1962: JOHN FLEMING 1984: WILLIAM CURTIS 1963: DOROTHY STROUD 1985: JILL LEVER 1964: F. H. W. SHEPPARD 1986: DAVID BROWNLEE 1965: H. M. & JOAN TAYLOR 1987: JOHN HARVEY 1966: NIKOLAUS PEVSNER 1988: ROGER STALLEY 1967: MARK GIROUARD 1989: ANDREW SAINT 1968: CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY 1990: CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH 1969: PETER COLLINS 1991: CHRISTOPHER WILSON 1970: A. H. GOMME& 1992: EILEEN HARRIS & NICHOLAS SAVAGE D. M. WALKER 1993: JOHN ALLAN 1971: JOHN HARRIS 1994: COLIN CUNNINGHAM & 1972: HBRMIONE HOBHOUSE PRUDENCE WATERHOUSE 1973: MARK GIROUARD 1995: MILES GLENDINNING & 1974: J. MORDAUNT CROOK & STEFAN MUTHESIUS M. H. PORT 1996: ROBERT HILLENBRAND 1975: DAVID WATKIN 1997: ROBIN EVANS 1976: ANTHONY BLUNT 1998: IAN BRISTOW 1977: ANDREW SAINT 1999: DEREK LINSTRUM 1978: PETER SMITH 2000: LINDA FAIRBAIRN 1979: TED RUDDOCK 2001: NICHOLAS COOPER, PETER 1980: ALLAN BRAHAM FERGUSSON & STUART HARRISON

17K Society's Essay Medal is presented annually to the winner of the Society's essay medal competition. The regulations are available from the Honorary Secretary. Recipients of the medal have been:

1982: GORDON HIGGOTT 1992: FRANK SALMON 1983: NEIL JACKSON 1993: CATHERINE STEEVES 1984: JOSEPH SH ARPI.ES 1994: SEAN SAWYER 1985: NO award was made 1995: JONATHAN HUGHES 1986: LAURA JACOBUS 1996: ANDREW HOPKINS 1987: TIM MOWL 1997: PETER MAYHEW 1988: GILES WORSLEY 1998: ANDREW FOYLE 1989: No award was made 1999: NO award was made 1990: No award was made 2000: ELEANOR TOLLFREE 1991: MICHAEL HALL 2001: KATHRYN FERRY

Volume 45:2002

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THE PRINCIPAL DESIGN METHODS FOR GREEK DORIC TEMPLES AND THEIR MODIFICATION FOR THE PARTHENON by Gene Waddell 1

THE CHINESE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURAL HEATING SYSTEM [KANG]: ORIGINS, APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES by Qinghua Guo 32

GRUND TO HROF: ASPECTS OF THE OLD ENGLISH SEMANTICS OF BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE by Carole Biggam 49

SPATIAL ASPECTS OF THE ALMONRY SITE AND THE CHANGING PRIORITIES OF POOR RELIEF AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY C. 129O-I54O by Neil S. Rushton 66

THE CHURCH AND THE PIAZZA: REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CHURCH OF S. DOMENICO MAGGIORE IN NAPLES by Yoni Ascher 92

PALLADIO'S CANONICAL CORINTHIAN ENTABLATURE AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN THE FOURTH BOOK OF J quattro libri dell'architettura by Branko Mitrovic 113

A RECONSTRUCTION OF THOMAS WOLSEY'S GREAT HALL AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE by Jonathan Foyle 128

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! CECIL HOUSE IN THE STRAND by Jill Husselby and Paula Henderson 159

RIDING HOUSES AND HORSES: WILLIAM CAVENDISH'S ARCHITECTURE FOR THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP by Lucy Worsley and Tom Addyman 194

INIGO JONES AND THE HATFIELD RIDING HOUSE by Giles Worsley 230

THE STUART KINGS, OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE CHAPEL ROYAL 1618-1685 by Simon Thurley 238

WREN'S PRELIMINARY DESIGN FOR THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE by Anthony Geraghty 275

THE LIBRARY OF FRANCOIS BLONDEL l6l8-l686 by Anthony Gerbino 289

THE ENGLISHNESS OF GOTHIC! THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS FROM WILLIAM GILPIN TO J. H. PARKER by Simon Bradley 325

UNBUILT HERTFORD: T. G. JACKSON'S CONTEXTUAL DILEMMAS by William Whyte 347

SEEKING A 'SYMBOLISM COMPREHENSIBLE' TO 'THE GREAT MAJORITY OF SPECTATORS': WILLIAM LETHABY'S ARCHITECTURE, MYSTICISM AND MYTH AND ITS DEBT TO VICTORIAN MYTHOGRAPHY by Deborah van der Plaat 363

CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY: ANGLO-JEWRY AND SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE by Sharman Kadish 386

PERRET AND HIS ARTIST-CLIENTS: ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF GOLD by Louise Campbell 409

AN ARTISTIC EUROPEAN UTOPIA AT THE ABYSS OF TIME: THE MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY PROJECT, 1931-34 by Ita Heinze-Greenberg 441

JAMES WILD, EGYPT, AND ST JOHN'S CHURCH, HAMPSTEAD: A POSTSCRIPT TO CHRIST CHURCH, STREATHAM by Neil Jackson 483

A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS 160O-1840: CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE THIRD EDITION (YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1995) by Howard Colvin 485

TOM ADDYMAN is an archaeologist specializing in the analysis of standing buildings and is a director of Addyman and Kaye Ltd, Paisley.

YONI ASCHER is a lecturer at the Department for Art History, University of Haifa. His field of research is sixteenth-century art in Italy, especially in Naples and its historical territories. His publications include essays on the Rota chapel in San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, Tommaso Malvito and Neapolitan Tomb Design of the early Cinquecento, and the Carafa Chapel at Montecalvo Irpino.

CAROLE BIGGAM has a first degree in archaeology and a doctorate in historical semantics, specializing in both cases in Anglo-Saxon England. She is an Honorary Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, and Director of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey; she is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has published two books and several articles on early medieval semantics, mostly in the field of colour and plant-names.

SIMON BRADLEY works for the Pevsner Architectural Guides (Yale University Press) where he has written London i: The City of London (1997) and London 6: Westminster (forthcoming) in the 'Buildings of England' series. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, on 'The Gothic Revival and the Church of England, 1790-1840', in 1996, and is author of 'The Roots of Ecclesiology', in John Elliott and Christopher Webster (eds), A Church as it Should Be: The Cambridge Camden Society and its Influence (2000).

LOUISE CAMPBELL trained at the University of Sussex and the Courtauld Institute of Art; her Ph.D. thesis was on modernist architecture in inter-war England. She is now Senior Lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Coventry Cathedral: art and architecture in post-war Britain (1996) and editor of the millennial volume for the SAHGB, Twentieth-century architecture and its histories (2000). She is currently working on a study of studio architecture.

SIR HOWARD COLVIN, FBA, is Emeritus Fellow of St John's College Oxford. Internationally acclaimed for his Biographical Dictionary of British Architects and The History of the King's Works, he is author, inter alia, of Architecture and the After-Life and Essays in English Architectural History.

JONATHAN FOYLE works at Hampton Court Palace as Assistant Curator: Historic Buildings, Historic Royal Palaces, and also teaches architectural history for the University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education and International Summer Schools. He took a B.A. and Dipl. Arch in Architecture from Canterbury, M.A. in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is concluding a Ph.D. in Archaeology at Reading on 'An Archaeological Reconstruction of Thomas Wolsey's Hampton Court Palace'.

ANTHONY GERAGHTY passed his doctorate at Cambridge University with a thesis on Wren. He now teaches architectural history at the Mackintosh School of Architecture,

ANTHONY GERBINO received an M.Phil, in Architectural History from the University of Cambridge. He is completing his Ph.D. on Francois Blondel in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

QINGHUA GUO studied architecture at the Department of Architecture, Harbin University of Technology, China, and received her Ph.D. in architectural history at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She was a researcher at the Kyoto University, Japan, before commencing at the University of Melbourne as Lecturer in Asian Architecture. Her publications include A Visual Dictionary of Chinese Architecture (Melbourne, 2002) and The Structure of Chinese Timber Architecture (London, 1999).

ITA HEINZE-GREENBERG studied history and philosophy at the University of Bonn (Ph.D.. 1984). She was research fellow at the Architectural Heritage Research Centre, in the Technion, Haifa, Israel (1984-92) and then lecturer in History of Modern Architecture and Art at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, again in the Technion (1993-97). Since 1998 she has been working as a free-lance art historian near Munich, Germany. Her main research work (books and articles) is on Erich Mendelsohn, 'Bauhaus' in Israel, and early settlement planning in Pre-State Israel. She is currently working on a biography of Louise Mendelsohn.

PAULA HENDERSON has a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialized in the architecture and setting of the Tudor and early Stuart house. Her articles and photographs have appeared in Apollo, Country Life, Garden History, Architectural History and in collections of essays, including Albion's Classicism and Patronage, and Culture and Power: The Early Cecils, both part of the Paul Mellon Centre's Studies in British Art series. She is currently completing a book, to be published by Yale. She teaches in the Courtauld Institute Summer School.

JILL HUSSELBY did her Ph.D. at Warwick (completed 1996) on 'Architecture at Burghley House: the Patronage of William Cecil 1553-1598'. Since then she has been free-lance — lecturing, writing, and continuing research. Her latest publication is a chapter in Patronage, Culture and Power, The Early Cecils 1558-1612 ed. Pauline Croft (Yale, 2002), on 'The Politics of Pleasure: William Cecil and Burghley House'. She is currently researching Wothorpe House.

NEIL JACKSON is an architect and Hoffman Wood Professor of Architectural Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. Despite this, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the author of the book Nineteenth-Century Bath: Architects and Architecture (1991, 1999), as well as books on twentieth-century architecture.

SHARMAN KADISH was educated at University College London, St Antony's College, Oxford (where she gained her Doctorate in Modern History) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been active in Jewish heritage conservation since the

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BRANKO MITROVIC received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a thesis on Daniele Barbara, and is currently employed as Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of a translation of, and commentary on, Vignola's Regola delli cinque ordini (1999) and a number of studies on Venetian architectural theory of the Cinquecento.

NEIL RUSHTON has recently submitted his Ph.D. thesis at Trinity College, Cambridge, a study of monastic charitable provision in England during the later Middle Ages, including the spatial arrangements of almonry sites. He previously received a B.A. in Archaeology/History and a M.A. in Medieval Culture at the University of Southampton. He is currently Projects Officer for CKC Archaeological Consultants, specializing in architectural and landscape surveys, and is also completing an edition of the Mottisfont Priory cartulary and rental for publication as part of the Hampshire Record Series.

SIMON THURLEY is Chief Executive of English Heritage and formerly Director of the Museum of London and Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces. He studied at Bedford College and the Courtauld Institute and has written about the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English court and palaces. His books include The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (1993) and Whitehall Palace (1999). He has written articles for Architectural History on the Tower of London and Hampton Court.

DEBORAH VAN DER FLAAT has a B.A. (Hons) in Art History from the Australian National University and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of New South Wales. Her published work examines the architectural writings of the English architect and theorist William Richard Lethaby, their debt to the social critiques of John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold, and cultivation of an ambivalent theory of modern production. Her current research focuses on nineteenth-century theories on the imagination, art and design and English readings of the Renaissance treatise, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. She is presently a research associate at the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

GENE WADDELL is a member of the faculty of the College of Charleston, and has degrees in English and in Art History from the College and in Architectural History from UCLA. He writes primarily about how buildings are designed and constructed, and his article on the design of the Westminster Hall Roof appeared in the 1999 issue of this journal.

WILLIAM WHYTE did his D.Phil, on T. G. Jackson at Oxford, where he is now Lecturer in Modern History at Balliol College.

GILES WORSLEY took his Ph.D. on the History of Stables and Riding Houses at the Courtauld Institute and is the architecture critic of the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period (1989), Classical Architecture in Britain: the Heroic Age (1995) and England's Lost Houses (2002) and editor of The Life and Works of John Can, by Brian Wragg (2001).

LUCY WORSLEY is an Inspector of Historic Buildings for English Heritage. Her D.Phil, from the University of Sussex was on the Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593-1676.