Bungalows and Country Residences - Couverture souple

Briggs, Robert Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905217692 ISBN 13 : 9781905217694

Editeur : Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

"A Bungalow is a little country house - a homely, cosy place . with the plan so arranged as to ensure complete comfort, with a feeling of rusticity and ease." As the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century offered the dream of exchanging the squalor and ugliness of cities for a more relaxed, aesthetically pleasing lifestyle, architect Robert Alexander 'Bungalow' Briggs was the leading proponent of a new type of housing embodying the movement's ideals. His 1891 book Bungalows and Country Residences set a pioneering template for the house that has become a much-loved part of neighbourhoods from Surrey to South Africa. This reprint of the expanded 1901 edition features 47 varied designs for real buildings, with detailed line drawings and floor plans accompanied by notes on layout and construction. Bungalows and Country Residences is a fascinating and inspiring look into the creative designs of a man lauded by architects, historians and bungalow fans alike.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Each of the three preceding editions has been enlarged by the introduction of extra plates, but the present is altered to such an extent as to require something more than its precursors in the way of Foreword. In order to give as much variety as possible, not only in the designs themselves, but also in the cost of the actual buildings (which ranges from 400 to ;i 1,000), I have made a further selection from my sketches, and have carefully revised the whole of the estimates, bringing up to date those of such houses as have been built, by allowances on the contract prices for the incieased cost of labour and materials which has occurred since they were erected. It may be well to point out to persons about to build, that a room more or less can generally be added or omitted without altering the idea of the design. As to the Country Houses, the plans and views speak for themselves, but I may say that my aim has been to show that small houses, costing about i 1,000, can be built simply, economically, and, I hope it will be thought, artistically. i Tywork will not have been in vain if it demonstrates that such houses, which would let for about 80 or go per annum, can each have its own individuality, and that it is not necessary that cheap houses should be distinctive only by their ugliness and vulgarity. Unfortunately, although the general design of a house may be artistic in outline, it is important to remember, that unless it is carried out under the supervision of an able architect, the design and execution of its details majbe so bad as to utterly ruin the original conception, as the general effect depends very largely on the contours of mouldings and their artistic rendering. AC ountrj House differs from a Bungalow in that more Reception Rooms, and Rooms of a larger size, must be provided, with accommodation for visitors and their entertainment, and that tiie
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jeremy Mills Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905217692
• ISBN 13: 9781905217694
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible