Modelling the Metropolis : the architectural model in Victorian London / Matthew Wells.

Main entry:

Wells, Matthew, author.

Title & Author:

Modelling the Metropolis : the architectural model in Victorian London / Matthew Wells.

Publication:

Zurich : GTA Verlag, [2023]
©2023

Description:

187 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 25 cm.

Series:

Architectural knowledge = Architektonisches Wissen

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Architectural models made nineteenth-century London. As the city grew it became the global centre of finance, industrial capitalism, and the British Empire. New buildings, urban spaces, and networks of infrastructure were demanded, constructed, and rebuilt. Models were a crucial medium of communication that enabled architects, politicians, and the wider public to conceive the city's expansion of buildings and spaces. Based on extensive research in archives, museums, and period publications, Modelling the Metropolis addresses not just architectural models but also an eclectic range of images and objects - from technical products to sculptures, diagrams to engravings, maps to photographs - that dramatize the politics and aesthetics of Victorian London."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783856764357 (paperback)
3856764356 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural models England London.
Architecture, Victorian England London.
Architecture England London History.
Modèles architecturaux Angleterre Londres.
Architecture victorienne Angleterre Londres.
Architecture Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Architectural models
Architecture
Architecture, Victorian
Buildings
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Reihe "Architektonisches Wissen."

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318409
Call No.: 318409
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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