Author: Christopher HusseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Early Georgian 1715-1760
Author: Christopher HusseyEnglish Country Houses: Early Georgian 1715-1760
Author: Christopher HusseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Christopher ChristiePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047251
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.
A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History
Author: Richard BarrasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349949809
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation’s history. In every age, investment in iconic buildings reaches a climax when the prevailing mode of production is operating most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability and prosperity, the demand for new buildings is strong, structural and stylistic innovations abound, and there is fierce competition to build for lasting fame. Each such climax produces a unique vintage of hegemonic buildings that are monuments to the wealth and power of those who ruled their world. This second volume presents three case studies of iconic building investment from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the eighteenth century the wealth of the great landed estates funded the golden age of country house building by aristocracy and gentry. During the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution unleashed an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment and civic building by the ascendant capitalist class. Since the late twentieth century the power of global financial capital has been symbolized by the relentless rise of city centre office towers. A final chapter argues that these different forms of hegemonic building are a physical manifestation of the underlying rhythm of English history.
Between Design and Making
Author: Andrew TierneyPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800086954
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a high point in the intersection between design and workmanship. Skilled artisans, creative and technically competent agents within their own field, worked across a wide spectrum of practice that encompassed design, supervision and execution, and architects relied heavily on the experience they brought to the building site. Despite this, the bridge between design and tacit artisanal knowledge has been an underarticulated factor in the architectural achievement of the early modern era. Building on the shift towards a collaborative and qualitative analysis of architectural production, Between Design and Making re-evaluates the social and professional fabric that binds design to making, and reflects on the asymmetry that has emerged between architecture and craft. Combining analysis of buildings, archival material and eighteenth-century writings, the authors draw out the professional, pedagogical and social links between architectural practice and workmanship. They argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production, exploring the obscure centre ground of the creative process: the scribbled, sketched, hatched and annotated beginnings of design on the page; the discussions, arguments and revisions in the forging of details; and the grappling with stone, wood and plaster on the building site that pushed projects from conception to completion.
Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930
Author: Stephanie BarczewskiPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526117533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Country houses and the British empire, 1700–1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and its different cultural manifestations. Barczewski offers a rare scholarly analysis of the history of country houses that goes beyond an architectural or biographical study, and recognises their importance as the physical embodiments of imperial wealth and reflectors of imperial cultural influences. In so doing, she restores them to their true place of centrality in British culture over the last three centuries, and provides fresh insights into the role of the Empire in the British metropolis.
Aristocratic Splendour
Author: D P MortlockPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075249600X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A vivid portrait of 18th century life, through the life and times of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester.
History of Interior Design and Furniture
Author: Robbie G. BlakemorePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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