Martin S Briggs

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Name Martin Briggs		Role Author
Books Cathedral Architecture, Wren: The Incomparable

Martin Shaw Briggs (1882–1977) was a British architectural historian and author who specialised in the Baroque period before it became the subject of serious academic enquiry, and became vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Selected publications

In the Heel of Italy: A study of an unknown city, A. Melrose, London, 1910.

Baroque Architecture, T.F. Unwin, London, 1913.

Architecture. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge)

A Short History of the Building Crafts, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1925.

The architect in History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1927.

The Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers in England and America (1620–1685), Oxford University Press, 1932.

Wren, the Incomparable, Allen & Unwin, London, 1953.

Everyman's concise encyclopaedia of architecture, J.M. Dent, London, 1960.

Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1974. ISBN 0306705907

References

Martin S. Briggs Wikipedia

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