Builder's Pocket Companion (1728, 1731 etc.) The Art of Sound Building, demonstrated in Geometrical Problems (1732, 2nd ed. 1736, etc.) A New And Complete System of Architecture Delineated; (1749, 1759 etc.) (with John Halfpenny) New Designs for Chinese Temples, in four parts (1750–52) Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1750). This book is believed to have introduced the word "gazebo" to the English language. Rural Architecture in the Gothick Taste (1752). This is essentially an expansion of Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented (1752) (with John Halfpenny) The Country Builder's Pocket Companion and Builder's assistant for Rural Decoraytive Architecture (1753, 1756) Several books were produced in collaboration with his son John Halfpenny. New Designs for Chinese Temples was a volume of some significance in the history of furniture, since, having been published some years before the books of Thomas Chippendale and Sir William Chambers, it disproved the statement so often made that those designers introduced the Chinese taste into Britain. Halfpenny stated distinctly that "the Chinese manner" had been "already introduced here with success." Halfpenny's books were often the source for design details in 18th-century American houses as well, including Mount Clare in Baltimore County, Maryland, and the Chase–Lloyd House in Annapolis, Maryland. References 18th-century English architects Year of birth unknown 1755 deaths Year of birth uncertain British architecture writers Architects from Surrey