Author: Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Jacobean Architecture in Seventeenth Century England
Author: A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800
Author: Sir Reginald Theodore BlomfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Jacobean Country House
Author: Nicholas CooperPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The gabled manor houses of the early 17th century are, for many, the epitome of the English country house; indeed, Jacobean houses form the core of the National Trust collection. Richly illustrated with color and duotone photographs from Country Life’s unparalleled archive, this book tells the absorbing story of the evolution of the Jacobean country house. Though the Jacobean period itself spanned only 22 years (1603–1625), it had a major impact on English domestic architecture: this was an exciting period of experiment and discovery, with an extraordinary range of architectural styles being brought into play. The authoritative essays on 22 key Jacobean houses are brought to life with the beautifully reproduced photographs in this latest volume in the acclaimed Country Life series.
The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture
Author: John ShutePublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Author: Andrew GurrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
A short History of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500-1800
Author: Reginald BlomfieldPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368613804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1907.
Articulating British Classicism
Author: Elizabeth McKellarPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351575325
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.
Phantom Architecture
Author: Philip WilkinsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471166422
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built. These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that stymied them – politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a ‘safe’ option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings include the grand projects that acted as architectural calling cards, experimental designs that stretch technology, visions for the future of the city, and articles of architectural faith. Structures likeBuckminster Fuller’s dome over New York or Frank Lloyd Wright’s mile-high tower can seem impossibly daring. But they also point to buildings that came decades later, to the Eden Project and the Shard. Some of those unbuilt wonders are buildings of great beauty and individual form like Etienne-Louis Boullée’s enormous spherical monument to Isaac Newton; some, such as the city plans of Le Corbusier, seem to want to teach us how to live; some, like El Lissitsky’s ‘horizontal skyscrapers’ and Gaudí’s curvaceous New York hotel, turn architectural convention upside-down; some, such as Archigram’s Walking City and Plug-in City, are bizarre and inspiring by turns. All are captured in this magnificently illustrated book.
Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Author: Anne M. MyersPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408007
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England. Scholars have long found themselves in the position of excusing or explaining England’s failure to achieve the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance in the visual arts. Myers proposes that architecture inspired an unusual amount of historiographic and literary production, including poetry, drama, architectural treatises, and diaries. Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.
Newport Through Its Architecture
Author: James L. YarnallPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654919
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A comprehensive architectural history of America's greatest living architectural laboratory.