Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830

Summerson, John

ISBN 10: 014056103X / ISBN 13: 9780140561036

Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1983

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588 pages, illustrations, maps, plans; 24 cm. Reprint, 1991. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1530-1610); The building works of Henry VIII; Tudor patronage and the 'new fashion'; Elizabethan building: Influences and methods; The prodigy houses of Queen Elizabeth's reign; Prodigy houses: the Jacobean sequel; Building in town and country 1570-1640; PART TWO: INIGO JONES AND HIS TIMES (1610-1660); Inigo Jones at the court of James I; The surveyorship of Inigo Jones 1615-1643; Inigo Jones, his contemporaries and followers; Architecture and the artisan 1615-75; Churches and collegiate buildings 1530-1660; The restoration: Hugh May; Dr. Christopher Wren; PART THREE: WREN AND THE BAROQUE (1660-1710); The rebuilding of London: the city of churches; St. Paul's Cathedral; The royal works, 1660-1702; Wren and his contemporaries; English baroque: Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh, Archer; The royal works, 1702-26; Churches and the universities 1702-36; PART FOUR: THE PALLADIAN PHASE (1710-50); The palladian movement: Campbell, Burlington, and Kent; The individuality of James Gibbs; Palladian permeation: the villa; The house and the street in the eighteenth century; Building in gothic: from Wren to Walpole; PART FIVE: NEO-CLASSICISM AND THE PICTURESQUE (1750-1830); Neo-classicism: Britons abroad; William Chambers and Robert Adam; Neo-classicism: the second generation; Materials and methods in the age of 'improvement'; The picturesque and the cult of styles; Greek and gothic: architecture after Waterloo; Appendix I: Architecture in Scotland 1530-1707; Appendix II: English architecture in America. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014056103X
• ISBN 13: 9780140561036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 7th.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • European::5. Baroque & Rococo
  • European::British & Irish
  • Architecture::History

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Synopsis

The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds.