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Zusatztext “Applied to building types and periods once considered outside the pale, this kind of scholarship may do much to demolish the academic hedgerows that have portioned the British architectural landscape for too long.” – Buildings & Landscapes Informationen zum Autor Peter Guillery is a Senior Historian for the Survey of London, currently a part of English Heritage. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (2004) and of other books and articles on diverse aspects of London’s architectural history. He is responsible for a forthcoming Survey of London volume on Woolwich. Klappentext Revised papers presented in their original form at the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain annual symposium! held 17 May 2008 at the Art Workers' Guild in London. Zusammenfassung Extending the concept of British vernacular architecture to embrace buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Introduction 2. Pre-Reformation Parish Churches 3. Following the Geometrical Design Path from Ely to Jamestown, Virginia 4. The Villa: Ideal Type or Vernacular Variant? 5. The York Retreat, ‘a Vernacular of Equality’ 6. Self-Conscious Regionalism: Dan Gibson and the Arts and Crafts House in the Lake District 7. Tudoresque Vernacular and the Self-Reliant Englishman 8. ‘The Hollow Victory’ and the Quest for the Vernacular: J.M. Richards and ‘the Functional Tradition’ 9. A Modernist Vernacular? The Hidden Diversity of Post-war Council Housing 10. From Longhouse to Live/Work Unit: Parallel Histories and Absent Narratives
