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.[1]
Martin Shaw Briggs | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1882 |
| Died | 1977 |
| Occupation | Architectural historian |
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Early Work
In 1904, Briggs was awarded a prize by the Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society (now West Yorkshire Society of Architects or WYSA), a subset of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The prize was for drawings "showing the construction of an entrance hall and staircase."[2]
Selected publications
edit- 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.
- Middlesex Old and New
Allen & Unwin, London, 1934.
- Wren, the Incomparable, Allen & Unwin, London, 1953.
- Everyman's concise encyclopaedia of architecture, J.M. Dent, London, 1960.
- A Pictorial Guide to Cathedral Architecture, Pride of Britain series, Pitkin Pictorials, Ltd., London, 1973.
- Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1974. ISBN 0306705907
References
edit- ^ "Briggs, Martin S[haw]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Allied Societies: Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society". Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. XIII, Third Series: 63. November 1904 – October 1905.
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