Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415565324 ISBN 13: 9780415565325

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

“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

 

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415565324
• ISBN 13: 9780415565325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Guillery Peter