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Book Synopsis A Short History of British Architecture by : Simon Jenkins
Download or read book A Short History of British Architecture written by Simon Jenkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory Stewart The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. A Short History of British Architecture is the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, from prehistoric Stonehenge to the lofty towers of today. Bestselling historian Simon Jenkins traces the relentless battles over the European traditions of classicism and gothic. He guides us from the gothic cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely and Wells to the ‘prodigy’ houses of the Tudor renaissance, and visits the great estates of Georgian London, the docks of Liverpool, the mills of Yorkshire and the chapels of south Wales. The arrival of modernism in the twentieth century politicised public taste, upheaved communities and sought to reconstruct entire cities. It produced Coventry Cathedral and Lloyd’s of London, but also the brutalist monoliths of Sheffield’s Park Hill, Glasgow’s Cumbernauld and London’s South Bank. Only in the 1970s did the public at last give voice to what became the conservation revolution – a movement in which Jenkins played a leading role, both as deputy chairman of English Heritage and chairman of the National Trust, and in the saving of iconic buildings such as St Pancras International and Covent Garden. Jenkins shows that everyone is a consumer of architecture and makes the case for the importance of everyone learning to speak its language. A Short History of British Architecture is a celebration of our national treasures, a lament of our failures – and a call to arms.
Book Synopsis Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition.). by : John Summerson
Download or read book Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition.). written by John Summerson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 by : Mark Girouard
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640 written by Mark Girouard and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages This long-awaited work of scholarship provides a comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. With characteristically deft prose, Mark Girouard draws on a lifetime of experience in the study of architectural history to assess the impact of some six hundred master craftsmen, surveyors, designers and patrons at work between 1540 and 1640. Surveying a period not covered by other dictionaries, this book is a key text for students and scholars of British architecture and its allied arts between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Mark Girouard's lively comments and felicitous style also make it an enjoyable browse for anyone interested in the magnificent buildings that formed the background to the music of Dowland, Wilbye and Byrd; the fascinating political intrigues of the Tudor court; and the writings of Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Campion and Jonson.
Download or read book The British Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1901-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Architecture in India by : Christopher Tadgell
Download or read book The History of Architecture in India written by Christopher Tadgell and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph drawing together all the strands of India's architectural history.
Book Synopsis Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation by : Dalibor Vesely
Download or read book Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation written by Dalibor Vesely and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming the humanistic role of architecture in the age of technology: an examination of architecture's indispensable role as a cultural force throughout history.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects by :
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elizabethan Architecture by : Mark Girouard
Download or read book Elizabethan Architecture written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of new research and travel on his part, this remarkable book displays Girouard's unique sense of style and is fired by the excitement that the architecture of the period still generates in him.
Download or read book 1066 and All That written by W C Sellar and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Conservation of Modern Architecture by : Susan Macdonald
Download or read book Conservation of Modern Architecture written by Susan Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of protecting significant buildings from decay and destruction would seem to be undeniable. Yet whilst the majority of buildings of merit constructed before the Second World War have been highlighted as worthy of protection there is much indifference, and in some cases hostility towards many important post-war buildings. These deserve to receive wider formal recognition but in many cases continue to be mistreated or even demolished.This book examines many of the philosophical and practical issues surrounding the conservation of modern buildings and also the problems faced by building practitioners in dealing with buildings constructed in a wider range of styles and materials than at any other time. Climate change in particular has forced change in the way in which we think about buildings, with the pressures to address issues of energy efficiency becoming more urgent and likely to have consequences that may alter the perceived architectural and historic interest of modern and traditional buildings alike.
Book Synopsis Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular by : Peter Guillery
Download or read book Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular written by Peter Guillery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history. Presented in an essentially chronological sequence, from the medieval to the post-war, diverse fresh viewpoints in the chapters of this book reinforce understanding of how building design emerges not just from individual agency, that is architects, but also from the collective traditions of society.
Book Synopsis The Comprehensive History of England by : Charles MacFarlane
Download or read book The Comprehensive History of England written by Charles MacFarlane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Society of Architects by :
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 by : Humm Louisa Humm
Download or read book Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 written by Humm Louisa Humm and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town. Steps decisively away from the 'Scottish castle' genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland's first well-documented grouping of major architects - including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations a
Book Synopsis Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture by : J. Twyning
Download or read book Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture written by J. Twyning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history.
