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

Redaktion: Guillery, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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