Author: John PlawPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings
Author: John PlawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Sketches for country houses, villas, and rural dwellings, also some designs for cottages, which may be constructed of the simplest materials; ...
Author: John PLAWDesigns for Elegant Cottages and Small Villas ...
Author: E. GyffordPublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cottage Residences
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An Historical and Architectural Essay Relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol
Author: John BrittonPublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures: Consisting Of Original Communications, Specifications Of Patent Inventions, And Selections Of Useful Practical Papers From The Transactions Of The Philosophical Societies Of All Nations, &c. &c
Author: Georgian Houses for All
Author: John WoodfordePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000917819
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
First published in 1978, Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them. Gregorian houses at their smallest and simplest can be seen everywhere in the British Isles – detached, semi-detached and joined together in terraces. There are probably still over a million of them, built during a period of 130 years without the direct aid of architects. John Woodforde points out that an instinctive wish for a symmetrical front seems to be shown by young children’s drawings of houses, these being generally balanced and orderly. The Georgians’ love of symmetry, marked in their way of hanging pictures, was part of a desire for private order amongst public disorder, a desire to have one small sphere in which nature was fully controlled. John Woodforde reminds us that, in the present-day return to terrace-house building, the Georgian version remains a valuable guide. The book will be of interest to students of architecture, urban planning, and history.
Living Space in Fact and Fiction
Author: Philippa TristramPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040013724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist. The role of the house, in fact and fiction, tells us much about the space we live in, while the work of contemporary architects and designers illuminates aspects of the novelist’s art. Profusely illustrated, Living Space takes the history of the house from the Georgian world of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela through the works of novelists such as Jane Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, up to 1914, when the notion of the house changes its nature. Philippa Tristram is concerned not only with the structure and organization of the house, but with the inner life lived within it. She shows how the subconscious life of the family was transformed over a century and a half, revealed in the shape and structure of the home. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and architecture.
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860
Author: Daniel MaudlinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317643151
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of small buildings built on country estates, and not so small buildings built in picturesque rural settings, resort towns and suburban developments. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is the Classical notion of retreat from the city to the countryside. This idea was adopted and adapted by the Augustan-infused culture of eighteenth-century England where it gained popularity with writers, artists, architects and their wealthy patrons who from the later eighteenth century commissioned retreats, gate-lodges, estate workers' housing and seaside villas designed to 'appear as cottages'. The enthusiasm for cottages within polite society did not last. By the mid-nineteenth century, cottage-related building and book publishing had slowed and the idea of the cottage itself was eventually lost beneath the Tudor barge-boards and decorative chimneystacks of the Historic Revival. And yet while both designer and consumer have changed over time, the idea of the cottage as the ideal rural retreat continues to resonate through English architecture and English culture.