Martin S. Briggs

Martin Shaw Briggs (1882–1977) 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.[1]

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."[2]

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. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge)
  • 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 (1620–1685), Oxford University Press, 1932.
  • Middlesex Old and New

Allen & Unwin, London, 1934.

  • 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. ISBN 0306705907

References
  1. "Briggs, Martin S[haw]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  2. "Allied Societies: Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society". Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. XIII, Third Series: 63. November 1904 – October 1905.


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