Title & Author:

Experiencing architecture in the nineteenth century : buildings and society in the modern age / edited by Edward Gillin and H. Horatio Joyce.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Description:

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-242) and index.
Part I: Defining experience. 1. Architecture and experience : regimes of materiality in the nineteenth century / William Whyte -- Part II: Producing experience. 2. Touching heaven, crafting utopia : David Parr House in Cambridge / Ayla Lepine ; 3. Architecture of the mind : imparting Californian identity through architectural experience on the early Stanford University campus / David Frazer Lewis ; 4. The architecture of art education : provincial art schools in Britain, 1850-1914 / Geoffrey Tyack ; 5. Rooms and galleries : spaces of art in the nineteenth century / Valerie Mendelson -- Part III: Designing experience. 6. New York's Harvard House and the origins of an alumni culture in America / H. Horatio Joyce ; 7. Architectural acoustics : Thomas Roger Smith and the science of hearing buildings in nineteenth-century Britain / Graeme Gooday ; 8. Powers of politics, scientific measurement and perception : evaluating the performance of the Houses of Commons' first environmental system, 1852-4 / Henrik Schoenefeldt -- Part IV: Audiences and experience. 9. Publicity and exclusivity : the experience of the public rooms of the London 'grand hotel' at the end of the nineteenth century / Emma Anderson ; 10. 'The fullest fountain of advancing civilization' : experiencing Anthony Trollope's House of Commons, 1852-82 / Edward Gillin ; 11. Building student bodies : college gymnasia and women's health in nineteenth-century America / Caitlin DeClercq -- Part V: Epilogue. 12. Material, movement and memory : some thoughts on architecture and experience in the age of mechanization / G. A. Bremmer.

Summary:

Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user - rather than simply on the intentions of the designer - the book shows that new and important insights can be brought to our understanding of Victorian architecture. The chapters present a range of ideas and new research - some examining individual building case studies (from grand hotels and clubhouses in New York to the parliament buildings of Westminster), and others exploring conceptual questions about the nature of architectural experience, whether sensory or otherwise. Yet they share the premise that the idea of the 'experience of architecture' took on a new and particular significance with the rise of industrial modernity, and they examine what contemporary people - both architects and non-architects - understood by this idea. The insights in this volume extend beyond the study of Victorian architecture. Together they suggest how 'experience' might be used as a framework to produce a more convincingly historical account of the artifacts of architectural history.

ISBN:

9781350045941 hardcover alkaline paper
1350045942 hardcover alkaline paper
electronic book
9781350045965
electronic book
1350045969
electronic publication
9781350045958
electronic publication
1350045950

Subject:

Architecture and society History 19th century.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture et société Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Architecture and society.
Architektur
Gesellschaft
Innenarchitektur
Raum

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gillin, Edward John, 1990- editor.
Joyce, H. Horatio, editor.

Experiencing architecture in the 19th century
Buildings and society in the modern age

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306919
Call No.: BIB 252461
Status: Available