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Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England.
COLEN CAMPBELL AT A GLANCE: Born 1676, died 1729 Scottish lawyer turned architect; Palladian pioneer Patronised by Lord Burlington; Author of an influential series of books on classical design; Colen Campbell was perhaps more responsible for the growth in popularity of Palladian architecture in England than any single architect.
Subscribers to the 300 plates of the Vitruvius were a cross-section of the British nobility, gentry and imminent architects including Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Carefully compiled and finely executed, Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus was highly acclaimed.
Colen Campbell Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Containing The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, In Great Britain, With Variety of New Designs; in 200 large Folio Plates, Engraven by the best Hands; and Drawn either from the Buildings themselves, or the Original Designs of the ...
Palladianism first emerged in Britain in the work of the Scottish architect Colen Campbell (1676 – 1729). His book Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect (1715) was a catalogue of contemporary British buildings.
Advocating the judgment “truly of the Merit of Things by the Strength of Reason,” his heroes were Vitruvius, Palladio, and Inigo Jones; his villains, the architects of the Italian Baroque: “The Italians can no more… Read More.
Overview. Colen Campbell. (1676—1729) architect. Quick Reference. (1676–1729) Scottish architect. In 1715 he published the first of three volumes of Vitruvius Britannicus, in which he illustrated contemporary British architecture and advocated the ‘Antique Simplicity’ of Vitruvius, whose ...
