List of illustrations

1 Il Gesù. Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

2 Florentia, rendering intended to illustrate Ptolemy’s Geografia, probably drawn 1420. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

3 Sebastiano Serlio, studies of architectural details from the Pantheon, in Book III ‘On Antiquities’, Tutte l’opere d’architettura et prospetiva, 2nd edn, 1544. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

4 Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), portrait of Giulio Romano, c.1536. Courtesy of the Museo Civico del Pala 330 Te, Mantua. © Christie’s Images Corbis

5 Pirro Ligorio, Anteiquae Urbis Imago, 1561, detail. Courtesy of the British School at Rome.

6 Renaissance Gothic: Stephan Weyrer the Elder, Church of St George, Nördlingen, nave and choir vaults, c.1500. Courtesy of Andreas Praetcker and Wikipedia Commons.

7 Mies and America? Jacqueline Kennedy chatting with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 12 April 1964, Hyannis Port, Mass. © Bettman/Corbis.

8 Whose heritage? Kaiserbad Spa (now Bath I) at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, architects Fellner und Helmer, Vienna 1895, atelierchef Alexander Neumann, photographer unknown. Private collection.

9 Evolution of the temple type, Plate 1 of Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce, considérées du côté de l’histoire et du côté de l’architecture, by Julien-David Le Roy, plate by Michelinot, after Le Moine.

10 Ampio Magnifico Collegio, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, first published in his Opera varie di architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichità (Rome: Bouchard, 1750). Courtesy of the Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent.

11 Jeffries apartment and courtyard, West 10th St, Greenwich Village, New York, depicted in Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1954). Production photograph. Courtesy of Paramount/The Kobal Collections.

12 Poster advertising the Exhibition of Seventy Drawings by Francesco Borromini from the Albertina of Vienna at the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome, 1958–9. Courtesy of the Albertina, Vienna.

13 Measured drawing and geometrical study of San Lorenzo, Florence, by Matthew A. Cohen. By permission of Matthew A. Cohen.

14 Adelaide, South Australia, drawn by Le Corbusier with Hugh Trumble, Bogotá, Colombia, 1950. Courtesy of the Fondation le Corbusier. © Le Corbusier/ADAGP. Licensed by VISCOPY, 2009.

15 Interior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened 1959. Courtesy of Rainer Halama and Wikipedia Commons.

16 Still from Le mani sulla città, directed by Federico Rosi (1963). Courtesy of Galatea/The Kobal Collection.

17 Façade, new Post Office, Algiers, Algeria, early twentieth century. Courtesy of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

18 Oath of Office Ceremony (2009) at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the Chapel by Skidmore, Owens & Merrill (1962) depicted in the background. Courtesy of US Air Force Public Affairs and Wikipedia Commons.