Robert Morris (writer)

Robert Morris (writer)

Robert Morris (1703–1754) was an English writer on architecture. He was born in Twickenham in 1703. [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] ]

elected works

Essays

*"An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture" (1728)
*"Lectures on Architecture" (1734-6)
*"An Essay on Harmony. As it Relates Chiefly to Situation and Building" (1739)
*"The Art of Architecture, a Poem. In Imitation of Horace's ‘Art of Poetry" (1742)

Pattern books

*"Rural Architecture" (1750)
*"The Architectural Remembrancer" (1751)

References


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