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British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Title Description: British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport. The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, and consider the work of key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live. British Design is split into 13 chapters and is richly illustrated with 65 images, 16 of which are in full colour.
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British Architectural Styles
Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed and original drawings, to help put a date to the variety of period buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural terms and a historical time chart. The book will prove an invaluable companion whether visiting grand houses open to the public or simply strolling around the streets of villages, towns and cities.
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Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular
This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.
Presented in an essentially chronological sequence, from the medieval to the post-war, diverse fresh viewpoints in the chapters of this book reinforce understanding of how building design emerges not just from individual agency, that is architects, but also from the collective traditions of society.
“Applied to building types and periods once considered outside the pale, this kind of scholarship may do much to demolish the academic hedgerows that have portioned the British architectural landscape for too long.” – Buildings & Landscapes
Peter Guillery is a Senior Historian for the Survey of London, currently a part of English Heritage. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (2004) and of other books and articles on diverse aspects of London’s architectural history. He is responsible for a forthcoming Survey of London volume on Woolwich.
1.Introduction Peter Guillery 2. Pre-Reformation Parish Churches Paul Barnwell 3. Following the Geometrical Design Path from Ely to Jamestown, Virginia Laurie Smith 4. The Villa: Ideal Type or Vernacular Variant? Elizabeth McKellar 5. The York Retreat, ‘a Vernacular of Equality’ Ann-Marie Akehurst 6. Self-Conscious Regionalism: Dan Gibson and the Arts and Crafts House in the Lake District Esmé Whittaker 7. Tudoresque Vernacular and the Self-Reliant Englishman Andrew Ballantyne and Andrew Law 8. ‘The Hollow Victory’ and the Quest for the Vernacular: J.M. Richards and ‘the Functional Tradition’ Erdem Erten 9. A Modernist Vernacular? The Hidden Diversity of Post-war Council Housing Miles Glendinning 10. From Longhouse to Live/Work Unit: Parallel Histories and Absent Narratives Frances Holliss
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Building the Modern Church
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts.
A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building's social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.
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How we built Britain
\"David Dimbleby leads us on a colourful chronological journey through Britain's architectural landscape: to towerings fortresses, timber-framed barns, magnificent palaces, railway viaducts, music halls, suburban homes and tower blocks.\" \"Generously illustrated with specially commissioned photography and historic images, this book reveals how the structures originated in the experiences and beliefs of the British people, and how they hold the key to who we are.\"--Jacket.
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Bar Locks and Early Church Security in the British Isles
This book examines the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure or defensible from their earliest times until the later medieval period. In particular it examines the phenomenon of 'bar locks' which the author identifies in many different contexts throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
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