Cours d'architecture enseigné dans l'Academie royale d'architecture ...
Cours d'architecture is a 1698 architectural treatise by François Blondel, taught at the Académie royale d'architecture in Paris and issued through the Amsterdam publisher Pierre Mortier for students and practising builders. Its plates show measured elevations, column orders and doorways drawn in fine line, with scale markings and lettered keys. A designer could take from them the proportional logic of classical doorways, arches and rusticated masonry as a structural grid for layouts.
