Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century to the present. In Oxford: An Architectural Guide, Geoffrey Tyack chronicles the architectural development of Oxford--both University and City--from its origins to the late twentieth century, explaining the idiosyncrasies of Oxford's architectural history, and placing the buildings within their historical context. 
This copiously illustrated, chronological guide to the glories of Oxford's architecture places the emphasis on what can actually be seen. Tyack suggests a number of walks around Oxford and its immediate environs, providing an ideal companion for the city's visitors and an excellent reference book for architectural enthusiasts. With its lucid style and clear, user-friendly design, Oxford: An Architectural Guide is a unique guide to one of England's most beautiful cities.

Oxford: An Architectural Guide

Science & Math

TYACK, Geoffrey

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century to the present. In Oxford: An Architectural Guide, Geoffrey Tyack chronicles the architectural development of Oxford--both University and City--from its origins to the late twentieth century, explaining the idiosyncrasies of Oxford's architectural history, and placing the buildings within their historical context. This copiously illustrated, chronological guide to the glories of Oxford's architecture places the emphasis on what can actually be seen. Tyack suggests a number of walks around Oxford and its immediate environs, providing an ideal companion for the city's visitors and an excellent reference book for architectural enthusiasts. With its lucid style and clear, user-friendly design, Oxford: An Architectural Guide is a unique guide to one of England's most beautiful cities.

Travel

Europe

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In the sixty years since 1945 St John's College, Oxford has been one of the major patrons of modern architecture in Oxford and Cambridge, commissioning a series of innovative and successful buildings from a sequence of leading architectural practices. Geoffrey Tyack discusses these buildings in detail, with the help of copious illustrations, placing each building within the context of its architect's oeuvre and relating it to the changing character of Oxford University. It is thus intended to be a contribution to the understanding both of modern collegiate architecture, and of recent English architecture in general. Publication will coincide with the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the College.

Modern Architecture in an Oxford College: St John's College 1945-2005

Arts & Photography

Architecture

This work covers the English county of Berkshire. Stretching from the fringes of London, Berkshire originally covered much of present day Oxfordshire. The variety of architecture is, consequently, broad and remarkable, from the towns of the home counties to the farmhouses and churches of its west.

Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

PEVSNER, Nikolaus

Bradley, Simon

Yale University Press

This guide covers nearly 400 historic country houses in England.County by county descriptions cover most of the houses regularly open to the public and details of the architects, artists, craftsmen and families responsible for them. Black-and-white photographs and maps throughout

Blue Guide Country Houses of England (Blue Guides)

Brindle, Stephen

Blue Guide

The perfect introduction to these historic university cities.Attractions include a wealth of old buildings and excellent museums, beautiful churches, parks, and gardens. The sixth edition offers plenty of ideas for out-of-town excursions, and useful, up-to-date recommendations on where to stay and what to eat. 20 maps and plans, 20 line drawings

Blue Guide Oxford & Cambridge (Sixth Edition) (Blue Guides)

For a period of thirty years in the mid-nineteenth century James Pennethorne was more intimately involved with the planning and building of London than any other major architect. A pupil of John Nash, he took over his teacher's practice and became government architect for the first half of Victoria's reign. He was responsible for the planning of new streets, the laying out of parks, and the design of important public buildings such as the Public Record Office, the west wing of Somerset House, and the Duchy of Cornwall office. It is therefore almost impossible for Londoners to avoid coming into contact with some aspect of his work. This study throws fresh light on some of the main architectural issues and controversies of the time. Even more important, it contributes to an understanding of the complicated relationship between government and architects, and of the forces which created the London of the nineteenth century and of today. The book therefore makes a contribution to the history of urban planning, and to urban and architectural history in general, in addition to offering an important new assessment of Pennethorne himself.

Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture)

Cambridge University Press

Two early panoramas of the Regent's Park: the panoramas of Richard Morris and John Mortimer

London Topographical Society

The Bodleian Library: a Guide

Bodleian Library

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Oxford: An Architectural Guide

Oxford: An Architectural Guide

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

Modern Architecture in an Oxford College: St John's College 1945-2005

Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Blue Guide Country Houses of England (Blue Guides)

Blue Guide Oxford & Cambridge (Sixth Edition) (Blue Guides)

Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture)

Two early panoramas of the Regent's Park: the panoramas of Richard Morris and John Mortimer

The Bodleian Library: a Guide