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Victorian Architecture: With A Short Dictionary Of Architects And 250 Illustrations by Roger Dixon,
Publisher: Thames And Hudson
Publish date: 1985
Number of pages: 288 pages
ISBN: 0500201609
ISBN13: 0500201609

Explores the interplay of social forms, technological advances, and creative achievements that gave rise to various building types in the Victorian age.

The Architecture Of The Eighteenth Century by Summerson, John Newenham Sir,
Publisher: Thames And Hudson
Publish date: 1986
Number of pages: 176 pages
ISBN: 0500202028
ISBN13: 0500202028

The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equalled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg or the dazzlingly theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque towards Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns–Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theatres, museums, hospitals and banks.

English Architecture (World Of Art) by David Watkin,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish date: February 26, 2001
Number of pages: 224 pages
ISBN: 0500203385
ISBN13: 0500203385

This comprehensive, well-illustrated survey of English architecture provides an evenhanded, straightforward history from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the twentieth century. Concentrating on buildings that can still be seen today, David Watkin discusses all the styles and periods of English architecture, including Norman, early Gothic, Perpendicular, Tudor and Jacobean, Baroque, Classical, and Victorian. The emphasis is on the high points of English creative genius as expressed in the art of architecture by Edwin Lutyens, Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, Richard Rogers, and a host of others. This updated edition includes a new preface, a revised bibliography, and an expanded chapter on twentieth-century architecture that brings the story up to the present. 320 b/w illustrations.

American Architecture, Second Edition (World Of Art) by David P. Handlin,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish date: February 23, 2004
Number of pages: 304 pages
ISBN: 0500203733
ISBN13: 0500203733

America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New?

David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processes—the practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the innovations of Jefferson, Bulfinch’s fine civic buildings, the offices and factories of the Industrial Age, and the comfortable domestic tradition that lies behind the houses of the Greene Brothers and Frank Lloyd Wright. The second is seen in the unprecedented daring of the Chicago School—great engineers like Adler united with great designers like Sullivan; in the majestic state capitols, exhibition halls, and public buildings by firms such as McKim, Mead & White; in the luxury of Fifth Avenue mansions; and in the exuberance of commercial Manhattan.

The revised edition ends with a lively account of recent developments—virtual architecture, the revival of historical styles (including modernism), the thirst for striking originality, and a new interest in the local, with figures including Stern, Meier, Gehry, and Mockbee. 264 illustrations.

A comprehensive survey of Scottish buildings from prehistory to the present.

Scotland is unique among smaller European countries in the distinctiveness and richness of its architectural heritage, dominated from the earliest times by monumental stone buildings. Prehistoric tombs and houses, early Christian, Romanesque, and Gothic churches, medieval and Renaissance castles and palaces were followed from the seventeenth century onward, under the stimulus of burgeoning wealth and power, by buildings reflecting a dazzling range of stylistic movements and forceful designers, including world-renowned names such as Robert Adam, Alexander Thomson, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. When artistic reaction came in the twentieth century, Scotland again saw distinctive developments and personalities. 196 illustrations, 68 in color.