TY  - BOOK
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/448/
KW  - Traktat / Architektur
A1  - Gerbier, Balthazar
AV  - public
ID  - artdok448
N2  - A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent  Building (1662) is the first of the two architectural treatises by Balthazar Gerbier which he printed soon after his return to England in 1660. The second treatise, Counsel and Advise to all Builders, followed one year later in 1663. Both works are still in the tradition of Alvise Cornaro and Henry Wotton, and others who followed them, pragmatic and empirical in orientation, and witten more for patrons, for men of the ordinary kind, and for executing supervisors, builders, and workmen than for elevated architects.
ED  - Davis, Charles
TI  - Balthazar Gerbier: A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent  Building. Viz.  Solidity, Conveniency, and Ornament (London  1662) (FONTES 7)
Y1  - 2008///
ER  -

TY  - BOOK
A1  - Gerbier, Balthazar
AV  - public
ID  - artdok546
N2  - Counsel and Advise to all Builders of 1663 is the first of the two architectural treatises by Balthazar Gerbier which he printed soon after his return to England in 1660. The first treatise, A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent Building (FONTES 7), was printed the year before, in 1562. Gerbier?s Counsel and Advise to all Builders represents an extension of and completion of the earlier Brief Discourse. In 1664, both works were printed together in a single book under the title, The First and Second Part of Counsel and Advice to all Builders (...), London 1664. Both works are still in the tradition of Alvise Cornaro and Henry Wotton, and others who followed them, pragmatic and empirical in orientation, and written more for patrons, for men of the ordinary kind, and for executing supervisors, builders, and workmen than for elevated architects.   The introductory text gives an outline account of the two treatises, with greater emphasis devoted to the Counsel and Advise, and analyses their structure and content. The character of the treatises is defined in light of their content, and their originality is isolated through a specific reading of Gerbier?s intentions in treating of the realization of buildings. In particular, the unusually detailed definition of the rôle of the Clerk-of-the-Works emerges as a distinctive feature of Gerbier?s discussion of building. Gerbier?s emphasis lies in the technical, practical, material, and economic-and-financial aspects of building. In his treatise there may be discerned perhaps unique testimonies concerning the economics of building and the world of work in the building trades.
ED  - Davis, Charles
TI  - Balthazar Gerbier: Counsel and Advise to all Builders; For the Choice of their Surveyours, Clarks of their Works, Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters, and other Workmen therein concerned. As also, In respect of their Works, Materials and Rates thereof. Together with several Epistles to Eminent Persons, who may be Concerned in Building (London 1663) (FONTES 8)
Y1  - 2008///
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/546/
KW  - Traktat / Architektur
ER  -