Axel Haig and the Victorian Vision of the Middle Ages (Genius of Architecture, 3)

Arts & Photography

Crook, J. Mordaunt

Lennox, Boyd C.

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher A.

History & Criticism

Unwin Hyman

Brasenose College was founded in 1509 by a Bishop (William Smith) and a lawyer (Richard Sutton). Both came from the North West of England, and the college has always been proud of its links with Lancashire and Cheshire. But over the centuries Brasenose--or "B.N.C." as it is usually known--has expanded its reputation worldwide. This is the first full-scale history of Brasenose, timed to coincide with its Quincentenary. The setting is broad: it relates the college to the university, and the university to the wider world of politics. Using archives, letters and diaries, it aims to recreate something of the variety and texture of academic life over a period of five centuries: the learning, the conversation, the sport; the intellectual milieu and financial context; the architecture inside and out; the food and drink, the quirks of personality, the little dramas, and absurdities that make up the small change of corporate living.

Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College

History

Europe

Oxford University Press

William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous, and fabulously expensive, buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more, designed dozens, and in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture and jewellery of all time. He was an art-architect. Rich, clever, well connected and short lived, he was uncompromising, profoundly learned, skilled in every process of design and explosively inventive. A brilliant talker, pungent critic and hilarious companion, he was one of Victorian London's great eccentrics and networkers, though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages. The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral, Cardiff Castle and the even more eccentric Castell Coch, the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton and Studley Royal, the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon, and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, and his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture, fabric and jewellery designs and his unrealised projects were also hugely influential, and the former are now enthusiastically collected. This book was a landmark in Victorian studies when first published in 1981 and is now completely revised and re-illustrated substantially in colour.

William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

Architecture

Univ of Chicago Pr

Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas€”from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism€”form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years€”Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern€”The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of architectural ideas.This challenging book confronts one of the central problems of architectural theory: the nature€”and necessity€”of st

The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post Modern

University of Chicago Press

First edition. Founded by an Act of Parlilament in 1753 to hold the vast collections of Sir Hans Sloane 1660-1753 , the British Museum was the first museum in the world which was public, secular and national. It has constantly "wrestled with the process of perpetual expansion and the many attempts to cope with hundreds of rooms, thousands of exhibits, miles of books, and millions of visitors." This book is a study of the architectural politics involved in these transistions. Illustrated with 100 black and white photographs and sketches. Some wear to dust jacket. 251+ 1 pages. cloth. small 8vo..

The British Museum, (The Architect and society)

Allen Lane.

This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscovery of Greece, involving the figures like Hell Fire Dashwood, Twitcher Sandwich and the Dilettanti Society. Their propagation of the Neo-Classical theory is explained and the expression of that theory in Greek Revival architecture covered.

The Greek revival;: Neo-classical attitudes in British architecture, 1760-1870

J.Murray

William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous, and fabulously expensive, buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more, designed dozens, and in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture and jewellery of all time.

He was an art-architect. Rich, clever, well connected and short lived, he was uncompromising, profoundly learned, skilled in every process of design and explosively inventive. A brilliant talker, pungent critic and hilarious companion, he was one of Victorian London's great eccentrics and networkers, though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages.

The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral, Cardiff Castle and the even more eccentric Castell Coch, the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton and Studley Royal, the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon, and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, and his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture, fabric and jewellery designs and his unrealised projects were also hugely influential, and the former are now enthusiastically collected.

William Burges and the high Victorian dream

The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-modern

Ranging widely over English architecture during the last 200 years, through Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian styles to the present day, this fully illustrated study explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Joe Mordaunt Crook, a leading authority on British architectural history, has also written "The Greek Revival" and "William Burges and the High Victorian Dream".

The Dilemma of Style

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

This is the standard study of the Greek Revival. Unlike the Gothic Revival, it was a movement which had to wait a long time for its historian. Yet as a style it was of enormous importance, and its influence can be seen throughout Britain and beyond. The book opens with the rediscovery of Greece, a story of romance and adventure rich in extraordinary personalities: 'Hell Fire' Dashwood, 'Twitcher' Sandwich, and their cronies in the Dilettanti Society: Sir William and Lady Hamilton, Payne Knight and 'Rapid' Gell, Lord Elgin, Lord Byron and that apostle of Neo-Classicism, J. J. Winckelmann. Their discovery of Greece is a major chapter in the history of classical scholarship, and Neo-Classicism is the subsidiary theme of this book. The propagation of Neo-Classical theory is explained, the expression of that theory in Greek Revival architecture fully explored, and the whole movement placed within the context of Romanticism. Many of the leading architects between 1760 and 1870 came to be involved: 'Athenian' Stuart, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Thomas Harrison, Sir John Soane, John Nash, Sir Robert Smirke, William Wilkins, C. R. Cockerell, 'Greek' Thomson, and others. Their work is illustrated in over 250 illustrations, which provide a unique visual survey to complement the author's comprehensive text. A full-scale bibliography (updated for this paperback edition) lists the many articles and monographs by modern scholars working in this field as well as the extensive literature of Neo-Classical archaeology.

The Greek Revival: Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760-1870

John Murray Pubs Ltd

There have been many books about Victorian and Edwardian houses, but this is the first to concentrate on the taste of the nouveaux riches. Not just the rich but the very rich: those who grew immensely wealthy in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. Cotton, shipping, steel, real estate, diamonds, chemicals, banking, the stock market-that was how they made their money. But what did they do with it? Where and how did they live? J. Mordaunt Crook, one of Britain's leading architectural historians, describes the houses of the richest of the new rich-the Rothschilds, the Guinnesses, the Beits and the Brasseys, the Barings, the Wernhers, the Tennants, the Sassoons-and explains the economic and social context that sustained their extraordinary lifestyles. In effect, he tells the story of the remaking of the British ruling class. Enhanced with numerous photos as well as excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs.

The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture

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