Martin 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.

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."

• 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