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Function and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Function and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and
decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century.
While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject
of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in
the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century.
Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart - for the
first time - the global reach of iron's architectural reception,
from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into
architecture's traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of
its structural and ornamental roles. The book is divided into three
sections. Formations considers the rising tension between the
desire to translate traditional architectural motifs into iron and
the nascent feeling that iron buildings were themselves creating an
entirely new field of aesthetic expression. Exchanges charts the
commercial and cultural interactions that took place between
British iron foundries and clients in far-flung locations such as
Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria and Australia. Expressing colonial
control as well as local agency, iron buildings struck a balance
between pre-fabricated functionalism and a desire to convey beauty,
value and often exoticism through ornament. Transformations looks
at the place of the aesthetics of iron architecture in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period in which iron
ornament sought to harmonize wide social ambitions while offering
the tantalizing possibility that iron architecture as a whole could
transform the fundamental meanings of ornament. Taken together,
these chapters call for a re-evaluation of modernism's supposedly
rationalist interest in nineteenth-century iron structures, one
that has potentially radical implications for the recent ornamental
turn in contemporary architecture.
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