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The Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse

Author : Colin Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse written by Colin Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural History Museum in London is one of Britain's finest examples of late Victorian architecture at its exuberant height. A decorative tour de force, it was conceived by Alfred Waterhouse, whose attention to detail in the creation of this masterpiece is legendary. The terracotta mouldings of flora and fauna adorning both interior and exterior of the building rival in richness and variety the equally renowned contents of the Museum's collections. This book presents a history of the development of Waterhouse's designs for these mouldings, setting them in the context of his work as a whole and of their manufacture. It acknowledges his courage in selecting the generally frowned upon medium of terracotta for the execution of the ornament, rather than the established and respected material of carved stone. It also provides a unique document of his exquisite pencil drawings for the individual blocks: although many of the drawings were destroyed when their practical use had expired, over 130 still survive, and are held in the Museum's Library. Seldom seen and never reproduced in their entirety, they bear witness to the fact that Waterhouse was not only a skilled architect but also an extremely accomplished draughtsman. This is a unique portrait of an ornamental scheme which influenced a generation at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sustainable Building Design

Author : Vidar Lerum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317566440
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Building Design written by Vidar Lerum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture. After a century of building designs characterized by high energy demand, low quality lighting and poor thermal comfort, the fundamental questions must be asked again: is there a better path to designing the most energy efficient, comfortable, functional and beautiful buildings for a sustainable future? While seeking solutions for the future, are there lessons to be learned from the best buildings of the past? Sustainable Building Design explores outstanding buildings and building designs of the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the artistry of masters of architecture who came before. By dissecting and analyzing great public buildings of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, materials, techniques, and methods are discovered. This book presents the reader with clues and suggestions that will reveal the secrets of these buildings and by doing so provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how these architectural masterpieces work. Using photographs, drawings, sections, plans and diagrams which are painstakingly redrawn for consistency and clarity based on a wide range of documentation, Vidar Lerum compares works of architecture from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The reader is presented with a careful analysis of each building, providing a compelling sourcebook of ideas for students and professional architects alike.

The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053856
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.

Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum written by Mark Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of the design and building of The Natural History Museum in London. It traces the development of the design, describes the influences of the key personalities involved and highlights the features of the building.

Continental Crosscurrents

Author : J. B. Bullen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541907
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Continental Crosscurrents written by J. B. Bullen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the 'discovery' of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of returning to religious subjects in art and it raised the question of the relationship between modern art and Byzantine art in the early twentieth century. J. B. Bullen's original study presents some exciting findings. Few critics have noticed how much in advance of his time was Coleridge's passion for medieval art; Ruskin's debt in the Stones of Venice to Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris has hardly been noted, and Browning's involvement with the debate on the morality of Christian art is explored more extensively than previously. Three chapters are devoted to the role of British criticism in identifying the Romanesque style in architecture and differentiating it from the Gothic. They trace the concept as it arose in criticism at the beginning of the nineteenth century; its employment in the remarkable buildings of Edmund Sharpe and Sara Losh and the way in which it reached a climax in Waterhouse's enigmatic choice of Romanesque for the Natural History Museum in London. The collection concludes with two continental episodes from the history of modernism. One is the explosive British reaction to the primitivism of Gauguin; the other involves the identifying of one of the characters in D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love. Curious evidence suggests that the malevolent figure of Loerke was based on a German sculptor whom Lawrence met in Italy before the First World War.

Nature and culture

Author : Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612954X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Nature and culture written by Samuel J. M. M. Alberti and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester’s Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology.

Redisplaying Museum Collections

Author : Hannah Paddon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131706982X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Redisplaying Museum Collections written by Hannah Paddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-first century. Acknowledging the importance of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as project catalyst, Hannah Paddon explains and explores the complex process, from the initial stages of project conceptualisation to the final stages of museum re-opening and exhibition evaluation. She also provides an in-depth look, using three case study museums, at the factors which shape each museum redisplay project including topics such as museum architecture, government agendas and the exhibition team. Finally, the book offers discussions and conclusions around pitfalls and successes and thoughts about the future of collection redisplay.

The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521875595
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science written by Peter Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:

The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art

Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195313917
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art written by Gerald W. R. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding new entries, this work is a comprehensive reference resource for artists, art dealers, collectors, curators, conservators, students, researchers, and scholars." "Similar in design to The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, this one-volume reference work contains articles of various lengths in alphabetical order. The shorter, more factual articles are combined with larger, multi-section articles tracing the development of materials and techniques in various geographical locations. The Encyclopedia provides unparalleled scope and depth, and it offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as over 150 illustrations and color plates." "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques offers scholarly information on materials and techniques in art for anyone who studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art. The entries are written to be accessible to a wide range of readers, and the work is designed as a reliable and convenient resource covering this essential area in the visual arts."

The Architects and Architecture of London

Author : Kenneth Allinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750683376
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Architects and Architecture of London written by Kenneth Allinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going creative activity rooted in established urban patterns.

Architectural History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural History written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

Author : Charles Hind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000786072
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections written by Charles Hind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets, from 1882. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A section of a 19th-century townhouse, showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky blue at the top. This is a treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. Exploring both how and why architects draw, it offers a rich visual history from Palladio, Inigo Jones and Augustus Pugin to contemporaries such as Richard Rogers, Foster Associates and Zaha Hadid, via Sir Christopher Wren, George Gilbert Scott and Erno Goldfinger, and everything else in between. From back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen and ink perspectives, exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings, this book celebrates the full gamut of architectural representation. With over 200 lush, full-colour reproductions, this is a window into soul of architectural drawing over the past five hundred years. Includes newly digitised, never-seen-before material from the RIBA Collections, one of the largest architectural archives in the world. Explores rare drawings and designs from John Nash, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Frank Lloyd Wright and many more. Insightful commentary alongside each drawing ensures that they are as accessible and engaging as possible. Wide-ranging in scope, this book will both inspire and inform.

The Rough Guide to Britain

Author :
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1409358909
Total Pages : 1392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Britain written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new full-colour Rough Guide to Britain is the definitive guide to Rough Guides' home patch. Discover the best of what Britain has to offer, with detailed accounts of the country's world-class attractions, from the British Museum to Edinburgh Castle, aided by crystal-clear maps and plans. Get insider tips on Britain's vital, restless cities, from Bristol to Glasgow, and enjoy the bucolic attractions of its countryside, hiking along its walkers' trails or relaxing on its sometimes spectacular beaches. We also steer you towards all the best places to stay, from boutique hotels to cool campsites, and to eat and drink, from Michelin-starred restaurants and gourmet gastropubs to budget cafés and traditional pubs, giving you clear, balanced reviews for all budgets. You'll find lavish photography and colour maps throughout the guide, too, helping you to make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Britain.

Historic Streets of Liverpool

Author : David Paul
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671964
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Historic Streets of Liverpool written by David Paul and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers around Liverpool’s oldest streets, providing insight on their initial development, how they have changed and the construction of notable buildings.

Mayfair Through Time

Author : Brian Girling
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445629496
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Mayfair Through Time written by Brian Girling and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Mayfair has changed and developed over the last century.

A Chronology of Western Architecture

Author : Doreen Yarwood
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476480
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A Chronology of Western Architecture written by Doreen Yarwood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible to casual and serious readers alike, this comprehensive survey ranges from 2000 BC to the 1980s and features more than 1,000 chronologically arranged photographs and drawings. Each of the 105 two-page spreads represents a specific era and includes comments on architectural details and historical events of the period.

Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905

Author : Colin Cunningham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905 written by Colin Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Waterhouse was one of the most successful architects of the second half of the 19th century. He left his mark on towns and cities all over Britain, This book examines Waterhouse's long career and demonstrates his importance for all those with an interest in 19th-century architecture.