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Building the Georgian City (Hardcover, New)
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Building the Georgian City (Hardcover, New)
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Georgian architecture had its roots in the Great Fire of London in
1666. Out of that disaster grew the need for rapid redevelopment,
which was accomplished through standardization and the relaxation
of restrictive practices in the building trades. This book
investigates the decline in crafted buildings of the traditional
client economies and the introduction of mass produced components
that characterized an emerging consumerism. It is an approach that
offers fresh insights into our architectural heritage by focusing
on the traditions and innovations in the building methods of the
time-the construction processes, the role of the building
craftsmen, and the tools and materials they used. James Ayres
describes how builders in London developed the English terraced
house and town-centered building systems that influenced the
architecture of Bath, Edinburgh, Dublin, and distant Philadelphia.
He takes us through the building processes craft by craft, from the
work of the surveyors and laborers who established the foundations
to the joiners and painters who finished the interiors. Ayres
outlines the ways in which forms do not only follow functions but
are also conditioned by materials and methods. He describes how,
with the burgeoning industrialization of the second half of the
eighteenth century, a separation emerged between making and
designing, a division that led to the decline of the craftsman as
designer. This led to a shift in power, a move from the empirical
understanding of those involved in the processes of making to the
theoretically based activities of architects. Published for the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Published for the
Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
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