Building Reputations - Architecture and the Artisan, 1750-1830

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

List of contents

Introduction: a new apology for the builder
1 Building reputations: a genteel life in trade
2 Designing houses: the façade and the architecture of street and square
3 Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of decoration
4 Building sales: advertising and the property market
Conclusion: the builder rehabilitated?
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Conor Lucey is Assistant Professor in the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin

Summary

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Conor Lucey, Dr Conor Lucey
• Assisted by: Bill Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781526119940
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1994-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture