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This book conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London
at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power,
uniqueness and attraction. Balancing the social, the topographical
and the visible aspects of the great city, author Andrew Saint uses
buildings, architecture, literature and art as a way into
understanding social and historical phenomena. While many volumes
on Victorian London focus on poverty (an issue which is included in
this book), the author here provides a broader picture of life in
the city. It is enlivened with a rich line-up of colourful
characters, including Baron Albert Grant; Henry Mayers Hyndman and
his connections with Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard
Shaw; John Burns; Octavia Hill; Aubrey Beardsley and the artistic
bohemians; Alfred Harmsworth and the Garrett sisters, and includes
insightful quotes on London by esteemed authors such as Trollope,
Henry James and Rudyard Kipling. Divided into four long chapters,
each dealing with a decade, London's evolution between 1870 and
1914 comes across clearly. Although not intended to be a complete
history, it does cover all the most important historical
developments in London and London life. Particular issues are
allotted to the decade in which they seem to have been most
critical. Topics covered include: the creation of new
neighbourhoods and roads; how the Victorians dealt with their
housing crisis; why certain architectural styles were preferred;
and the fashion for focusing on certain types of building, such as
ice rinks, schools, houses, hospitals, fire stations, exhibition
halls, water works, music halls, recital rooms and pubs. This is an
up-to-date, readable and well-illustrated book which embraces the
whole in a positive spirit. Saint's interpretation of London's
history in the period covered is unashamedly one of progress in the
face of great odds. He shows that, in almost every aspect, it was a
much better city in1914 than in 1870. At a time when local autonomy
in Britain has been ruthlessly downgraded and London's face is
every year coarsened further by money-led developments, this story
of gradual and earnest improvement may have lessons to teach.
Providing essential knowledge about the British capital's built
environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish
of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the
north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from just west of
Marylebone High Street to the parish boundary along Cleveland
Street near Tottenham Court Road to the east. This area is rich in
historic buildings and includes some of London's most celebrated
addresses, including Portland Place, Cavendish Square, and Harley
Street. Among the most important buildings covered in this superbly
illustrated book are Robert and James Adam's development of
Portland Place, where the Royal Institute of British Architects'
headquarters is a notable 20th-century insertion. Other landmarks
include Marylebone Parish Church, All Saints Margaret Street and
All Souls Langham Place, and the vast, recently demolished
Middlesex Hospital. In addition to new photography, this volume
includes meticulous architectural drawings and detailed coverage of
the topography. Published in association with the Paul Mellon
Centre and University College London
Cities for the New Millennium is the outcome of a joint conference
held in Salford in July 2000 by the Royal Institute of British
Architects and the University of Cambridge's Department of
Architecture. It tackles these questions in the light of the Urban
Task Force's report about the future of Britain's cities and
communities, but sets them in an international and historical
context. Professionals - architects, engineers and developers as
well as academics from different countries and disciplines here
lavish their expertise on issues of transportation, density, land
use, risk and energy saving; others present urban-scale buildings
or landscapes that have been judged inspirational or inventive.
This book, therefore, is not just about theories of urbanism. It
reveals how co-operation and debate between different parties and
professions can illuminate the creative kind of urban development
we should be aiming for.
The south London parish of Battersea has roots as a working
village, growing produce for London markets, and as a high-class
suburb, with merchants' villas on the elevated ground around
Clapham and Wadsworth Commons. Battersea enjoyed spectacular growth
during Queen Victoria's reign, and railroads brought industry and a
robust building boom, transforming the parish into another of
London's dense, smoky neighborhoods, though not without its unique
and distinguishing features. Among these are Battersea Park, which
was created by the Crown in the 1850s; the monumental Battersea
Power Station, completed in 1939; and Clapham Junction railway
station, which is, by measure of passenger interchanges, the
busiest station in the United Kingdom. The two latest volumes of
the Survey of London, 49 and 50, trace Battersea's development from
medieval times to the present day. Offering detailed analysis of
its streets and buildings both thematically and topographically,
and including copious original in-depth research and investigation,
the books are a trove of architectural history and British history.
Profusely illustrated with new and archival images, architectural
drawings and maps, these volumes are welcome additions to the
acclaimed Survey of London series. Published for English Heritage
by Yale University Press on behalf of the Paul Mellon Centre for
Studies in British Art
Cities for the New Millennium is the outcome of a joint conference held in Salford in July 2000 by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture. It tackles these questions in the light of the Urban Task Force's report about the future of Britain's cities and communities, but sets them in an international and historical context. Professionals - architects, engineers and developers as well as academics from different countries and disciplines here lavish their expertise on issues of transportation, density, land use, risk and energy saving; others present urban-scale buildings or landscapes that have been judged inspirational or inventive. This book, therefore, is not just about theories of urbanism. It reveals how co-operation and debate between different parties and professions can illuminate the creative kind of urban development we should be aiming for.
This is a book about ideas rather than techniques. Public thirst
for visible evidence of the past is not, as it is often
represented, a recent phenomenon. It was already well developed
when an overseer of ancient monuments was appointed in
sixth-century Rome. But if the desire to preserve aspects of the
past is to do more than respond to popular whims and fashions or
represent the personal views of ivory-towered scholars and
specialists, it needs to have some kind of solid logical basis.
Philosophical questions are raised at every turn. On what basis can
buildings be singled out as "historic buildings", demanding special
protection? On what authority can we justify interfering with
private property rights in pursuing such protective processes? And
how should we judge what is acceptable and unacceptable in the
treatment of the buildings we value? In this third, substantially
revised edition, the author examines the nature of monuments and
the varied motives for preserving them. He traces the history of
movements to preserve old buildings and the furious conflicts that
have frequently surrounded restoration campaigns. Philosophical
problems arising in modern conservation practice, including such
controversial issues as "skin-deep preservation" and the use of
substitute materials, are considered in detail. More space is
devoted in this edition to contextual issues. New sections deal
with issues of sustainability and the relationship of buildings to
the townscape and landscape. The number of illustrations has also
been greatly increased. The book is designed especially for
students approaching the subject for the first time but may well be
found stimulating by practitioners. No easy formulae are offered.
What conservators, have to nurture, the author insists, is an
inquiring and self-critical frame of mind enabling them to proceed
from comprehensive knowledge of the buildings for the time being in
their care, via logical argument, to defensible, if not inevitable,
solutions.
The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of
Architecture is the first major work of history to include an
overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century.
Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural
history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and
factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. In
this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank
with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors,
chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is
new. * There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture
of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong,
Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet
Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on
traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the
section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both
with new specially commissioned drawings * The architecture of the
Americas before 1900 has been enlarged to include, for the first
time, detailed coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean * The
book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from
outside Europe * The bibliography has been expanded into a separate
section and is a key source of information on every period of world
architecture * The coverage of the 20th century architecture of
North America has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller
coverage of contemporary works * 20th century architecture of
Western Europe has been radically recast * For the first time the
architecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and
assessed in an historical perspective * Coverage has been extended
to include buildings completed during the last ten years * The
coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and
re-organised to form a self contained section This unique reference
book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical
settings to describe the main patterns of architectural
development, from Prehistoric to the International Style. Again in
the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that
'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and
aspirations of the people, and without a knowledge of this art the
history of any period lacks that human interest with which it
should be invested.'
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