About This Book
The book traces an architect's life through extended travel, study of classical, medieval, and Egyptian monuments, and the development of professional practice; it draws on journals, official documents, and personal recollection to narrate formative tours, major commissions, stylistic evolution, and working methods, and concludes with reflections on private character and domestic life. Chapters interweave travel impressions, technical observation, descriptions of public and private projects, and appended specimens of reports and notes. Emphasis is placed on the influence of foreign study upon design principles, the balance between artistic taste and practical execution, and the biographer's effort to reconstruct character from limited personal correspondence.
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