Abstract
Many scholars are interested in the problem how the nineteenth century Victorian Gothic transfigured into International Modern style of 1920s. There are two ways of approach to make clear the process of the change. One is to go back into the origin of the International Modern, and the other is to trace the changing ideas of the Victorian Gothic itself. Here, it is intended to make clear theories on architectural styles at the final phase of the Victorian Gothic in England, especially the theory and practice of the "Queen Anne" style. In this first part, interpretations of the "Queen Anne" by contemporary architectual historians and architects, C. L. Eastlake and Sir G. G. Scott, as well as by modern historians like Sir John Betjeman, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, J. Mordaunt-Crook, M. Seaborne, R. Maclead and M. Girouard are examined, so as to enable to look into works of the Queen Anne architects of the late nineteenth century.
