Download or read book Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures written by David Watkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures contains the full text of Soane's letters, carefully edited by David Watkin. It is a revised and abridged edition of his award-winning book Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures. In his introduction to this new volume, Watkin explains the significance of Soane's approach to architectural history and theory, as expressed in the lectures delivered from 1810-1820 as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy. They are accompanied by a selection of the watercolors that Soane prepared as illustrations.