Robert Chitham (1935 or 36 – 13 September 2017) was a British architect and writer. He was the author of ''The Classical Orders of Architecture'' published in 1985. A revised edition was published in 2005.British Library catalogue
accessed 11 April 2011 He drew from the diagramming and harmony of proportions of classical forms starting from

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, and foremost to James Gibbs. Chitham was the most recent architect to spell out extensively a more updated, modern, and refined version of classical architecture. Chitham was also the author of ''Measured drawing for architects'', published in 1980. Chitham was a consultant architect to Chapman Taylor, a London-based architectural practice. In this capacity he was responsible in the early 1980s for a scheme to save a large number of historic buildings in

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. He served as chairman of the Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation, and was head of the historic buildings division of

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. He was the author of "The Classical Orders of Architecture" (Architectural Press, updated 2005) which provided "an accessible introduction" to the basics of

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'', 3 March 2005. Retrieved 22 September 2014.

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*Chitham, Robert,
The classical orders of architecture
' (2nd edition), Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005, Architects from London 2017 deaths Year of birth uncertain 1930s births {{UK-architect-stub