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Zusatztext 'Engagingly written and beautifully produced' – Decorative Arts Society Informationen zum Autor Timothy Brittain-Catlin is Reader in Architecture at Kent School of Architecture and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. His publications include Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture , The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century, and Architecture: Learn how to Read a Building . Klappentext Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative and provided new building types for weekends, sport, and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health, and science. This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970's and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and influenced the pattern of building across England at every scale. It also looks at the building literature of the period and traces the links between these houses and suburbs, as well as the other creative forms of the period. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and results in an original interpretation of British culture of the period. Zusammenfassung This book analyses beautiful and varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture within a broad context, including Edwardian political thought and contemporary literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Chapter One: Kingsgate: The Edwardian Liberal and his castle. Chapter Two: The Liberals as builders. Chapter Three: The culture of Edwardian house-building. Chapter Four: The people's magic.
About the author
Timothy Brittain-Catlin runs the Architecture Apprenticeship course at the University of Cambridge. His publications include
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture (The MIT Press, 2014),
The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century (Spire Books, 2008) and
Architecture: Learn how to Read a Building (Harper Collins, 2008).
