A photographic essay on London from 1839 to 1879. This collection of photographs show how the city changed dramatically over this short period of time.

The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photography of London 1839-1879

Arts & Photography

Stamp, Gavin

Photography & Video

Penguin??Books

Ranging from picturesque cottages to Romantic manor houses, this illustrated survey of British domestic architecture in the Victorian era documents styles still popular today. André Goulancourt's superb photographs of urban, suburban, and country homes are combined with Gavin Stamp's commentary to unique effect. What emerges is not only a stunning visual record but also a lesson on the creative development of national and vernacular building traditions. Stamp suggests that the characteristic features of British domestic design in this era were symbolic and interpretive as well as functional. Reacting against modern industrialism and materialism, Victorian builders, in tandem with the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, revived vernacular traditions. Emphasis was placed on the proper use of building materials found locally and on elements that would later recur in the American Prairie House: the heavy pitched roof and the oversized and centrally placed chimney and fireplace. A number of domestic styles that emerged during this period, such as the Shingle style and the Queen Anne style, were imported by American architects and clients who shared the Victorian reverence for home, privacy, and the family unit. In addition to the interpretive text and catalog of eighty-seven buildings, The English House, 1860-1914 includes brief biographies of the sixty-three architects represented, including Pugin, Butterfield, Street, and Prior. Historians of both English and American architecture, as well as practicing architects and critics, will welcome this comprehensive volume.

The English House, 1860-1914: The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture

Goulancourt, André

Architecture

University of Chicago Press

George Gilbert Scott

Cambridge University Press

The English House, 1860-1914

Faber&Faber

The Changing Metropolis: The Earliest Photographs of London 1839-79

Viking Adult

TELEPHONE BOXES

Travel

Reference

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to façade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.

'Greek' Thomson: Neo-classical Architectural Theory, Buildings & Interiors

McKinstry, Sam

Edinburgh University Press

Britain in the thirties (AD profiles)

Architectural Design

Victorian buildings of London, 1837-1887: An illustrated guide

Architectural Press

The great perspectivists

Trefoil Books in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects

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