Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing Authority - Couverture rigide

Hanson, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521811864 ISBN 13 : 9780521811866

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This text examines how the authority of architects was created within the changing working practices of British architecture.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there. Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish often surprising relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott and Street - shedding light also on lesser figures, and on agencies as diverse as Freemasonry and magazine publishing. John Ruskin in particular emerges here in a different light, as do his arguments concerning 'The Nature of Gothic'. In line with rethinking of the pace of industrialization, and the dynamic between the metropolitan centres and the more slowly evolving 'fringes', Hanson concludes that in some respects Ruskin was closer to William Chambers than to William Morris.

Revue de presse

Review of the hardback: '... the scholarship is impressive ...' Architecture Today

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521811864
• ISBN 13: 9780521811866
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 394
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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