Cours d'architecture enseigné dans l'Academie royale d'architecture ...
Cours d'architecture is a 1698 architectural treatise by François Blondel, with plates engraved by Simon de LaBoissière and Jean-Baptiste Broebes and published in Paris and Amsterdam, written for students at the Académie royale d'architecture. Its plates show column orders drawn in measured elevation, with capitals, bases and entablatures labelled with dimensions and profile details. A designer could take from them the precise proportions and profiles of classical orders, shown as clean line diagrams with annotated sections.
