Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Guillery, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Extending 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136943140
• Artikelnr.: 42983091

Autorenporträt

Peter Guillery is a Senior Historian for the Survey of London, currently a part of English Heritage. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (2004) and of other books and articles on diverse aspects of London's architectural history. He is responsible for a forthcoming Survey of London volume on Woolwich.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction 2. Pre-Reformation Parish Churches 3. Following the
Geometrical Design Path from Ely to Jamestown, Virginia 4. The Villa: Ideal
Type or Vernacular Variant? 5. The York Retreat, 'a Vernacular of Equality'
6. Self-Conscious Regionalism: Dan Gibson and the Arts and Crafts House in
the Lake District 7. Tudoresque Vernacular and the Self-Reliant Englishman
8. 'The Hollow Victory' and the Quest for the Vernacular: J.M. Richards and
'the Functional Tradition' 9. A Modernist Vernacular? The Hidden Diversity
of Post-war Council Housing 10. From Longhouse to Live/Work Unit: Parallel
Histories and Absent Narratives