Shaping the Surface : Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840 - 2000

Beschreibung

16 x 24cm 332p near fine hardback. Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a 'national mania for beautiful surface quality', this book makes a new contribution to architectural history and visual culture in its detailed examination of the surfaces of British architecture from the middle of the 19th century up to the turn of the 21st century. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface all the way through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements from Romanticism and the Arts and Crafts, to Brutalism, High-Tech, Post-Modernism, Neo-Vernacular, and the New Materiality. Embedded within the narrative is the question of whether such national characters can exist in architecture at all and indeed the extent to which it is possible to identify a British architectural consciousness in an architectural tradition characterised by its continuous importation of theories, ideas, materials and people from around the globe. Includes black and white reproductions.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Shaping the Surface : Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840 - 2000

Verlag

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

135032065X

ISBN-13

9781350320659

Einband

Hardback

Auflage

First Edition.

Zustand

Near fine

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