Architectural Sculpture
This definitive survey gives pride of place to architectural carving and public monuments, celebrating the skilled artisans who populated 19th-century façades with stone figures.
An essential, lucid primer that decodes the structural logic and decorative vocabulary—mouldings, capitals, and friezes—that architectural sculptors so inventively interpret.
A meticulous, building-by-building guide that echoes Johnson’s documentary eye, cataloguing the rich array of friezes, statues, and pediment carvings hidden in plain sight.
A celebrated masterwork of decorative design that will delight your appreciation for the recurring motifs and structural patterns carved into the world's great architecture.