Author: David WatkinPublisher: London : Zwemmer
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Life and Work of C. R. Cockerell
Author: David WatkinPublisher: London : Zwemmer
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean
Author: Susan M. PearcePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272066
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Travels and Travellers -- 1 Introduction: Life Before Departure -- 2 Athens, Aegina and the Morea -- 3 Asia Minor, Sicily, Albania and Italy -- 4 Visions of Hellas -- 5 The Spirit of the Time -- 6 Homecomings -- Part Two: Letters -- Introduction to the Letters -- The Letters -- Appendix 1: Sources -- Appendix 2: Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time
Author: Anne BordeleauPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317168186
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides and how), or fundamentally, how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories. Six drawings provide the foundation of an itinerary through Charles Robert Cockerell’s conception of architecture, and into the depths of drawings and buildings. Born in England in 1788, Cockerell sketched as a Grand Tourist, he charted architectural history as Royal Academy Professor, he drew to build, to exhibit, to understand the past and to learn from it, publishing his last work in 1860, three years before his death. Under our scrutiny, his drawings become thresholds into the nineteenth century, windows into the architect’s conception of architecture and time, complex documents of past and projected constructions, great examples that reveal a kinetic approach to ornamentation, and the depth of architectural representation.
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871690349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Author: Michael W. FazioPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801881048
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 831
Book Description
Publisher description
Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christpher Wren, with a Brief View of the Progress of Architecture in England, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles the First to the End of the Seventeenth Century
Author: James ElmesThe Builder
Author: The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity
Author: Pierre de la Ruffinière du PreyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226173009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.
The Life of J.D. Åkerblad
Author: Fredrik ThomassonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900423635X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-François Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an exceptional linguist, was a diplomat and orientalist who spent several decades living in the Ottoman Empire, France and Italy. Of humble birth, he was a supporter of the French Revolution – something that stymied his career. His life cannot be understood in a purely Swedish national framework, and this study firmly situates him as an international scholar. The book discusses European expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean during the tumultuous decades around the year 1800, and traces Åkerblad’s momentous life in relation to the debates on ‘orientalism,’ the tradition of classical studies and the history of science.
British Architecture 1760–1914
Author: Geoffrey TyackPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000848833
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1760 to 1830. It contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings and will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture.