Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published:28th Nov '23
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A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political, and economic contexts that made them
Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830 presents a comprehensive history of architecture in Britain during this three-hundred-year period. Drawing on the most important advances in architectural history in the last seventy years, ranging across cultural, material, political, and economic contexts, this book also encompasses architecture in Ireland and includes substantial commentary on the buildings of Scotland and Wales.
Across three chronological sections: 1530–1660, 1660–1760, and 1760–1830, this volume explores how architectural culture evolved from a subject carried solely in the minds and skills of craftsmen to being embodied in books and documents and with new professions—architects, surveyors and engineers—in charge. With chapters dedicated to towns and cities, landscape, infrastructure, military architecture, and industrial architecture, and beautifully illustrated with new photography, detailed graphics, and a wealth of historic images, Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830 is an invaluable resource for students, historians, and anyone with an interest in the architecture of this period, and promises to become a definitive work of scholarship in the field.
“Like J M Richards all those decades ago, I can confidently predict that this will be the standard textbook for many years to come.”—William Whyte, Literary Review
“This major new publication looks set to enter the canon of architectural history. . . . Filled with countless enlightening details and illustrated examples that any interested reader will enjoy.”—House & Garden
“The only way to broaden the Summerson narrative was to take his book and rewrite it. This is what, with commendable courage and considerable brio, Brindle has done.”—Rosemary Hill, London Review of Books
"A lifetime of knowledge is gifted to the reader in Steven Brindle's monumental Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830. From its brilliant opening introduction this magisterial overview sets the national architectural story alight and the reader is struck by the scale and the sweep of history that Brindle handles with consummate skill, revealing a lifetime of practical and scholarly expertise in the field. This book will become an essential handbook and a classic study for future generations of scholars."—Berger Prize Committee 2024
"The breadth of Brindle’s coverage is astonishing, taking readers from the fortified tower-houses and ghostly temporary huts of sixteenth-century County Antrim to the architecture of the first railways. The needs of society, the availability of materials and skills and the views of clients as well as architects are often brought to the fore, producing a fuller picture of British architecture and a heightened awareness of the persistence of long-established building traditions, rather than a succession of styles."—Colin Thom, The Burlington
Shortlisted for Apollo's Book of the Year 2024
“Brindle’s desire to write an account that pays more attention to craft than art history puts him in conscious opposition to some of his illustrious predecessors, but the resulting survey complements rather than contradicts the likes of Summerson.”—Apollo
ISBN: 9781913107406
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592 pages