The Classical Building of Bath - Softcover

The Classical Building of Bath

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 208 pages. Architect Mike Jenner describes Bath's more notable classical buildings, expl ains the rules to which they were expected to conform, and tells how a few geniu ses broke them to move European architecture and urban planning triumphantly for ward. The book ranges from the Roman era through eighteenth-century showpieces s uch as John Wood's Circus and Royal Crescent to the controversial late twentieth -century Cavendish Lodge.The author shows how the problem of designing bu ildings which fit harmoniously into their context is not new, and gives examples of eighteenth-century classical buildings in Bath which caused serious visual d amage to the earlier ones around them. He explains how this reflected the see-sa w of fashion, with the work of every generation despised and rejected by the nex t, and then brought back into esteem by a later one.The Classical Buildin gs of Bath demonstrates the pleasure to be obtained from looking at classical bu ildings with proper understanding and the benefit of Stephen Morris' superlative photographs. Artikel-Nr. 5182p

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