{"product_id":"architects-and-the-building-world-from-chambers-to-ruskin-constructing-authority-hardback-9780521811866","title":"Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin; Constructing Authority (Hardback) 9780521811866","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArchitects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConstructing Authority\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis text examines how the authority of architects was created within the changing working practices of British architecture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Hanson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521811866, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 October 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e394 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.864 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: '… the scholarship is impressive …' Architecture Today\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there. Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish often surprising relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott and Street - shedding light also on lesser figures, and on agencies as diverse as Freemasonry and magazine publishing. John Ruskin in particular emerges here in a different light, as do his arguments concerning 'The Nature of Gothic'. In line with rethinking of the pace of industrialization, and the dynamic between the metropolitan centres and the more slowly evolving 'fringes', Hanson concludes that in some respects Ruskin was closer to William Chambers than to William Morris.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Section 1. 'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders: 1. John Gwynn\u003cbr\u003e 2. William Chambers\u003cbr\u003e 3. The example of Chambers\u003cbr\u003e Section 2. 'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders: 4. Joseph Gwilt\u003cbr\u003e 5. John Soane\u003cbr\u003e 6. The example of Soane\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Section 3. 'Mystery and Craft Are Gone By': The Poet's Descent: 7. A language of men\u003cbr\u003e 8. The pictorial art\u003cbr\u003e Section 4. 'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines: 9. Charles Barry\u003cbr\u003e 10. Pugin\u003cbr\u003e 11. A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Section 5. 'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building: 12. John Britton\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Artizan\u003cbr\u003e Section 6. 'Orthodoxy of Practice': The Builder and a New Freemasonry: 14. Josiah Hansom and The Builder\u003cbr\u003e 15. Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church\u003cbr\u003e 16. Bartholemew's College\u003cbr\u003e 17. Godwin's Builder\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Section 7. Ruskin's Changing Prospect: 18. Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon\u003cbr\u003e 19. The poetry of architecture\u003cbr\u003e 20. Modern Painters I and II\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Seven Lamps of Architecture\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Section 8. Ruskin's Descent: 22. Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett\u003cbr\u003e 24. Ruskin in 1854 and 1855\u003cbr\u003e 25. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites\u003cbr\u003e Part VI: Section 9. Incarnation: 26. Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum\u003cbr\u003e 27. Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum\u003cbr\u003e 28. Deane and Woodward\u003cbr\u003e 29. Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum\u003cbr\u003e Part VII: Section 10. Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s: 30. John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin\u003cbr\u003e 31. G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts\u003cbr\u003e 32. E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'\u003cbr\u003e 33. The architectural museum in the late 1850s\u003cbr\u003e 34. The failure of the Oxford Museum\u003cbr\u003e 35. Ruskin's lectures to architects\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theory of architecture [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20architecture%20%5BAMA%5D%22\"\u003eAMA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265136939288,"sku":"9780521811866","price":84.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521811866i.jpg?v=1692019809","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/architects-and-the-building-world-from-chambers-to-ruskin-constructing-authority-hardback-9780521811866","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}