Martin S. Briggs
British architectural historian and author
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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]
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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
- 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.
- Puritan Architecture and its Future, Lutterworth Press, London, 1946.
- Wren, the Incomparable, Allen & Unwin, London, 1953.
- Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Architecture, J.M. Dent, London, 1960.
- Architecture in Italy: A Handbook for Travellers and Students, J.M. Dent, London, 1961.
- 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
