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Author : David Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays in Scots and English Architectural History written by David Jones and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ariyuki Kondo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322509
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment written by Ariyuki Kondo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.
Author : Joan Coutu
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228014972
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 written by Joan Coutu and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change experienced in the public sphere. This collection focuses on the relationship between the country house and the mutable nature of British politics in the eighteenth century. Essays explore the country house as a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, a symbol of party allegiance or political values, and a setting for appropriate lifestyles. Initially the exclusive purview of the landed aristocracy, politics increasingly came to be played out in the open, augmented by the emergence of career politicians – usually untitled members of the patriciate – and men of new money, much of it created on Caribbean plantations or in the employ of the East India Company. Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 reveals how, during this period of profound change, the country house remained a constant. The country house was the definitive tangible manifestation of social standing and, for the political class, owning one became almost an imperative. In its consideration of the country house as lived and spatial experience, as an aesthetic and symbolic object, and as an economic engine, this book offers a new perspective on the complexity of political meaning embedded in the eighteenth-century country house – and on ourselves as active recipients and interpreters of its various narratives, more than two centuries later.
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781849172721
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Who Built Scotland written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to tell the story of the nation.Travelling across the country, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern cities, these five authors seek out the diverse narrative of the Scottish people. Follow Kathleen Jamie as she searches for the traces of our first family hearths in the Cairngorms and makes a midsummer journey to Shetland to meet the unlikely new inhabitants of an Iron Age broch. Tour the wondrous and macabre Surgeons' Hall with Alexander McCall Smith, or walk with him over sacred ground to Iona's ancient Abbey. Join Alistair Moffat as he discovers a lost whisky village in the wilds of Strathconon, and climbs up through the vertiginous layers of history in Edinburgh Castle. Accompany James Robertson as he goes from the standing stones of Callanish to the humble cottage of Hugh MacDiarmid - via the engineering colossus of the Forth Rail Bridge. And journey with James Crawford from a packed crowd in Hampden Park, to an off-the-grid eco-bothy on the Isle of Eigg.Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration of Scotland's social, political and cultural histories. Moving from Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to highland shieling girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers and iconoclastic artists, it places our people, our ideas and our passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is the remarkable story how we have shaped our buildings and how our buildings, in turn, have shaped us.
Author : Deborah Turnbull
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1914427017
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Thomas White (c. 1736–1811) written by Deborah Turnbull and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to restore the reputation of Thomas White, who in his time was as well respected as his fellow landscape designers Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. By the end of his career, he had produced designs for at least 32 sites across northern England and over 60 in Scotland. These include nationally important designed landscapes in Yorkshire such as Harewood House, Sledmere Hall, Burton Constable Hall, Newby Hall, Mulgrave Castle as well as Raby Castle in Durham, Belle Isle in Cumbria, and Brocklesby Hall in Lincolnshire. He has a vital role in the story of how northern English designed landscapes evolved in the 18th century. The book focuses on White's known commissions in England and sheds further light on the work of other designers such as Brown and Repton, who worked on many of the same sites. White set up as an independent designer in 1765, having worked for Brown from 1759, and his style developed over the next thirty years. Never merely a 'follower of Brown', as he is often erroneously described, his designs for plantations in particular were much admired and influenced the later, more informal styles of the picturesque movement. The improvement plans he produced for his clients demonstrate his surveying and artistic skills. These plans were working documents but at the same time works of art in their own right. Over 60 of his beautifully-executed colored plans survive, which is a testament to the value his clients placed on them. This book makes available for the first time over 90% of the known plans and surveys by White for England. Also included are plans by White's contemporaries, together with later maps, estate surveys, and contemporary illustrations to understand which parts of improvement plans were implemented.
Author : George Gilbert Scott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of English Church Architecture written by George Gilbert Scott and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fraser Hunter
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ISBN 13 : 9789088903755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Ancient Lives written by Fraser Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Lives provides new perspectives on objects, people and place in early Scotland and beyond.This scholarly and accessible volume provides a show-case of new information and new perspectives on material culture linked, but not limited to, Scotland.
Author : Jill A. Franklin
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837811
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Interpretation written by Jill A. Franklin and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory, and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. Yet the ways in which these effects are brought about are not yet well understood. The aim of this book is to move the discussion forward, to encourage and broaden debate about the ways in which architecture is interpreted, with aview to raising levels of intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and practice of architectural history. The range of material covered extends from houses constructed from mammoth bones around 15,000 years ago in the present-day Ukraine to a surfer's memorial in Carpinteria, California; other subjects include the young Michelangelo seeking to transcend genre boundaries; medieval masons' tombs; and the mythographies of early modern Netherlandish towns. Taking as their point of departure the ways in which architecture has been, is, and can be written about and otherwise represented, the editors' substantial Introduction provides an historiographical framework for, and draws out the themes and ideas presented in, the individual contributors' essays. Contributors: Christine Stevenson, T. A. Heslop, John Mitchell, Malcolm Thurlby, Richard Fawcett, Jill A. Franklin, StephenHeywood, Roger Stalley, Veronica Sekules, John Onians, Frank Woodman, Paul Crossley, David Hemsoll, Kerry Downes, Richard Plant, Jenifer Ní Ghrádraigh, Lindy Grant, Elisabeth de Bièvre, Stefan Muthesius, Robert Hillenbrand, AndrewM. Shanken, Peter Guillery.
Author : Shiqiao Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040278108
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Power and Virtue written by Shiqiao Li and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism and virtuosi on the other. Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.
Author : Gordon Home Blackader Library
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books on Architecture and the Fine Arts in the Gordon Home Blackader Library and in the Library of McGill University written by Gordon Home Blackader Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Institute of British Architects
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katarzyna Lecky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571761
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance written by Katarzyna Lecky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Lewes Cutts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration written by Edward Lewes Cutts and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Salmon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Treatise on Conic Sections Containing an Account of Some of the Most Important Modern Algebraic and Geometric Methods by the George Salmon written by George Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph GWILT
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopædia of Architecture ... Revised, with Alterations and Considerable Additions by W. Papworth. New Edition written by Joseph GWILT and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Keith Johnston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1480 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical, Forming a Complete General Gazetteer of the World written by Alexander Keith Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
