Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through its ongoing fascination with surface, materiality and decoration. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface 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. The book serves both as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history and as a deep critique and meditation on the central importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers, and historians.…mehr
Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through its ongoing fascination with surface, materiality and decoration. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface 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. The book serves both as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history and as a deep critique and meditation on the central importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers, and historians.
Stephen Kite is Emeritus Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. His previous books include Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1: Reading the wall surface: John Ruskin, William Butterfield, and George Edmund Street Chapter 2: 'Think first of the walls': Surfaces of Romance Morris, Webb, and the Arts and Crafts Domestic Interior Chapter 3: Smooth and Rough: George Frederick Bodley and Edward Schröder Prior Chapter 4: Carving the Surface: Edwardian and Inter War Architecture and Sculpture Chapter 5: Surfaces and Sharawaggi: Aspects of the Picturesque c 1925 1955 Chapter 6: As Found: Surfaces of Brutalism Chapter 7: Pattern, Abstraction, Post Modernism: Lubetkin Pasmore Stirling Chapter 8: High Tech, Neo Vernacular, New Materiality: Richard Rogers Ralph Erskine Caruso St John Bibliography Index
Introduction Chapter 1: Reading the wall surface: John Ruskin, William Butterfield, and George Edmund Street Chapter 2: 'Think first of the walls': Surfaces of Romance Morris, Webb, and the Arts and Crafts Domestic Interior Chapter 3: Smooth and Rough: George Frederick Bodley and Edward Schröder Prior Chapter 4: Carving the Surface: Edwardian and Inter War Architecture and Sculpture Chapter 5: Surfaces and Sharawaggi: Aspects of the Picturesque c 1925 1955 Chapter 6: As Found: Surfaces of Brutalism Chapter 7: Pattern, Abstraction, Post Modernism: Lubetkin Pasmore Stirling Chapter 8: High Tech, Neo Vernacular, New Materiality: Richard Rogers Ralph Erskine Caruso St John Bibliography Index
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