Summerson John. The Classical Language Of Architecture

Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1996. — 145 p. — ISBN: 0-500-20177-3.1965 compilation of six BBC radio lectures given in 1963 by Sir John Summerson. It is a 60-some page discussion of the origins of classical architecture and its movement through Antiquity, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Georgian periods.