Martin S. Briggs
Martin Shaw Briggs was a British architectural historian and author who specialised in the Baroque period before it became the subject of serious academic enquiry, and became vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Early Work
In 1904, Briggs was awarded a prize by the Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society, a subset of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The prize was for drawings "showing the construction of an entrance hall and staircase."
Selected publications
- In the Heel of Italy: A study of an unknown city, A. Melrose, London, 1910.
- Baroque Architecture, T.F. Unwin, London, 1913.
- Architecture.
- A Short History of the Building Crafts, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1925.
- The architect in History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1927.
- The Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers in England and America , Oxford University Press, 1932.Middlesex Old and New
- Wren, the Incomparable, Allen & Unwin, London, 1953.
- Everyman's concise encyclopaedia of architecture, J.M. Dent, London, 1960.
- A Pictorial Guide to Cathedral Architecture, Pride of Britain series, Pitkin Pictorials, Ltd., London, 1973.
- Muhammadan architecture in Egypt and Palestine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1974.