Edwin Rickards - Couverture souple

Brittain-Catlin, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1837645078 ISBN 13 : 9781837645077

Editeur : Historic England, 2023

Synopsis

Edwin Rickards was the most flamboyant of Edwardian architects: his buildings were said by John Summerson to fizz like champagne. During a short working life, launched at the age of 25 by winning the competition to design Cardiff City Hall with his partners H.V. Lanchester and James Stewart, he completed four spectacular baroque buildings.

Rickards’ work was unique in Edwardian architecture for his personal combination of French and especially Austrian sources. Working closely with H.C. Fehr and Henry Poole, leading practitioners of the New Sculpture, he designed two of the major monuments of the period. As well as being one of the best freehand draughtsmen in London, he was also a prodigious caricaturist. With a foot in the demi-monde and an endless appetite for architectural and personal adventure, Rickards was an unforgettable figure to everyone who met him.

Illustrated throughout with stunning new photography by Robin Forster and by Rickards’ own sketches and drawings, this book portrays his close friendship with the novelist Arnold Bennett who described him, along with H.G Wells, as one of ‘the two most interesting, provocative, and stimulating men I have yet encountered’, and his meteoric career that ended with his early death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect and architectural historian at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Historic England
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1837645078
• ISBN 13: 9781837645077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Allemagne