Architecture and Englishness, 1880-1914
Author: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Symposium
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Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780953925445
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Author: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Symposium
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780953925445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Maudlin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1317643151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of small buildings built on country estates, and not so small buildings built in picturesque rural settings, resort towns and suburban developments. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is the Classical notion of retreat from the city to the countryside. This idea was adopted and adapted by the Augustan-infused culture of eighteenth-century England where it gained popularity with writers, artists, architects and their wealthy patrons who from the later eighteenth century commissioned retreats, gate-lodges, estate workers' housing and seaside villas designed to 'appear as cottages'. The enthusiasm for cottages within polite society did not last. By the mid-nineteenth century, cottage-related building and book publishing had slowed and the idea of the cottage itself was eventually lost beneath the Tudor barge-boards and decorative chimneystacks of the Historic Revival. And yet while both designer and consumer have changed over time, the idea of the cottage as the ideal rural retreat continues to resonate through English architecture and English culture.
Author: A. A. R. Powers
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Published: 1982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antonia Brodie
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-12-20
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 082645514X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive biographical directory of some 11,000 British architects who worked between 1834 and 1914 .
Author: Peter Guillery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1136943153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtending the concept of British vernacular architecture to embrace buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.
Author: A. A. R. Powers
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1351537768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1317283449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris’s first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.
Author: Geoffrey Tyack
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1000848841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture.
Author: Stephen Kite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-11-17
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1350320684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a 'national mania for beautiful surface quality', this book makes a new contribution to architectural history and visual culture in its detailed examination of the surfaces of British architecture from the middle of the 19th century up to the turn of the 21st century. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface all the way through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements from Romanticism and the Arts and Crafts, to Brutalism, High-Tech, Post-Modernism, Neo-Vernacular, and the New Materiality. Embedded within the narrative is the question of whether such national characters can exist in architecture at all – and indeed the extent to which it is possible to identify a British architectural consciousness in an architectural tradition characterised by its continuous importation of theories, ideas, materials and people from around the globe. Shaping the Surface provides a deep critique and meditation on the importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers, and historians everywhere - in Britain and beyond - while it also serves as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history, with in-depth readings of the works of many key British architects, artists, and critics from Ruskin and William Morris to Alison and Peter Smithson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Rogers and Caruso St John.