Author: Portsmouth (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portsmouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Extracts from Records in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of the Borough of Portsmouth and from Other Documents Relating Thereto
Author: Portsmouth (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portsmouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height, Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Heights of Buildings CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
National Building Code Recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters
Author: National Board of Fire UnderwritersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building laws
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An Historical and Descriptive Account of Tattershall Castle
Author: William Adams NicholsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam
Author: David KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135142491
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.
Manual: New York Building Laws
Author: New York Society of ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building laws
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Building
Author: What Else Is Pastoral?
Author: Ken HiltnerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the actual countryside of England. For decades now literary criticism has had it that in pastoral verse, hills and crags and moors were extolled for their metaphoric worth, rather than for their own qualities. In What Else Is Pastoral? Ken Hiltner takes a fresh look at pastoral, offering an environmentally minded reading that reconnects the poems with literal landscapes, not just figurative ones. Considering the pastoral in literature from Virgil and Petrarch to Jonson and Milton, Hiltner proposes a new ecocritical approach to these texts. We only become truly aware of our environment, he explains, when its survival is threatened. As London expanded rapidly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the city and surrounding rural landscapes began to look markedly different. Hiltner finds that Renaissance writers were acutely aware that the countryside they had known was being lost to air pollution, deforestation, and changing patterns of land use; their works suggest this new absence of nature through their appreciation for the scraps that remained in memory or in fact. A much-needed corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry, What Else Is Pastoral? shows the value of reading literature with an ecological eye.
Modern Buildings in Britain
Author: Owen HatherleyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141998318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work today Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain's history is fiercely contested, and its role in our future is the subject of ongoing controversy - but modernist buildings have undoubtedly changed our cities, politics and identity forever. In Modern Buildings in Britain, Owen Hatherley applauds the ambition and explores the significance of this most divisive of architectures, travelling from Aberystwyth to Aberdeen, from St Ives to Shetland, in search of our most important and distinctive modern buildings. Drawing on hundreds of examples, we learn how the concrete of Brutalism embodies post-war civic principles, how corporate values were expressed in the glass façades of the International Style, and why Ecomodernist experimentation is often consigned to the geographic fringes. As Hatherley considers the social, political and cultural value of these structures - a number of which are threatened by demolition - two linked questions emerge: what happens to a building after it has been lived in, and what becomes of an idea when its time has passed? With more than six hundred pages of trenchantly opinionated, often witty analysis, and with three hundred photographs in duotone and colour, Modern Buildings in Britain is a landmark contribution to the history of British architecture.
London, a Social History
Author: Roy PorterPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674538399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.