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Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England.
COLEN CAMPBELL AT A GLANCE: Born 1676, died 1729 Scottish lawyer turned architect; Palladian pioneer Patronised by Lord Burlington; Author of an influential series of books on classical design; Colen Campbell was perhaps more responsible for the growth in popularity of Palladian architecture in England than any single architect.
In Palladianism. …and the first volume of Colen Campbell’s Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), a folio of 100 engravings of contemporary “classical” buildings in Britain (two more volumes followed in 1717 and 1725), the designs of which had enormous influence in England.
Colen Campbell Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Containing The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, In Great Britain, With Variety of New Designs; in 200 large Folio Plates, Engraven by the best Hands; and Drawn either from the Buildings themselves, or the Original Designs of the ...
Subscribers to the 300 plates of the Vitruvius were a cross-section of the British nobility, gentry and imminent architects including Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Carefully compiled and finely executed, Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus was highly acclaimed.
Palladianism first emerged in Britain in the work of the Scottish architect Colen Campbell (1676 – 1729). His book Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect (1715) was a catalogue of contemporary British buildings.
Colen Campbell (British, Brodie, Scotland 1676–1729 London) 1715–25, 1767–71 Vitruvius Britannicus or the British Architect, the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, in Great Britain,...
Colen Campbell, architect, was buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey on 13th September 1729 but he never seems to have had an inscribed gravestone and he has no monument. He was a son of Donald, laird of Boghole and Urchany in Scotland, and his wife Elizabeth (Innes).
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England.
Colen Campbell (1676–1729) was a prominent Scottish architect and architectural theorist, best known for his influential work in shaping the Palladian architectural style in Britain during the early 18th century.
