Victorian Architecture

Victorian Architecture
Author: Amos Jackson Bicknell
Publisher: Watkins Glen, N.Y. : American Life Foundation & Study Institute
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1976
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

American Victorian Architecture

American Victorian Architecture
Author: Arnold Lewis
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1975
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Brilliant photos of 1870s, 1880s, showing finest domestic, public architecture; many buildings now gone. 120 plates.

Empire Building

Empire Building
Author: Mark Crinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136181237

The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Late Victorian Architectural Plans and Details

Late Victorian Architectural Plans and Details
Author: William T. Comstock
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486156737

This authentic reproduction of plans drawn up by a noted nineteenth-century architectural firm features both residential and public buildings. Hundreds of illustrations include floor plans, perspective views, and elevations as well as designs for staircases, fireplaces, and other interior details. Other drawings depict windows, doors, balconies, and gables. Photographs offer crisp views of exteriors. Victorian architecture buffs will prize this excellent source of authentic period designs. Its 126 plates comprise 87 images of residences; the remaining 39 structures include a field club building, stables, a library, a school, a railroad station, a dry goods store, and a music hall. Captions describe locations, dimensions, costs, and other particulars.

Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture

Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture
Author: Katherine Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351537768

In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.