$130.14
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2020
Summary
Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science.
This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970s, and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who buil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848222687 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848222688 |
| Author: | Timothy Brittain-Catlin |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.40kg |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 210mm |
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“Rich, dense […] will cause us to look at Edwardian architecture in an entirely new way.” –Jane Ridley, C20 Society
‘A fascinating study of Edwardian domestic architecture brings out its debt to both progressive politics and the romanticism of the age’ – Charles Holland, Architecture Today‘rich, dense […] will cause us to look at Edwardian architecture in an entirely new way.’ – Jane Ridley, Literary Review‘Challenges any complacency one might have about the simplicity or sterility of the architectural scene just ahead of ‘our period’’. – Catherine Croft, C20 Society‘Timothy Brittain-Catlin, helped hugely by photographer Robin Forster and his sympathetic publishers, has authored an intelligent, scholarly and beautifully illustrated tome…His book is a wonderful thing, elegantly written and superbly illustrated: it celebrates agreeable human habitats designed by truly creative professionals that show up the dire, ugly, shameful mess being made nowadays.’ – James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education
‘Engagingly written and beautifully produced’ – Decorative Arts Society
About The Author
Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Timothy Brittain-Catlin runs the Architecture Apprenticeship course at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture (The MIT Press, 2014), The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century (Spire Books, 2008) and Architecture: Learn how to Read a Building (Harper Collins, 2008).
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