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.

Early Work

In 1904, Briggs was awarded a prize by the Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society (now West Yorkshire Society of Architects or WYSA), 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
Allen & Unwin, London, 1934.
 * 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 
 * 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