Osmond, Sam, 1933-
Harold Falkner : more than an Arts & Crafts architect / Sam Osmond.
Chichester, West Sussex : Phillimore, 2003.
xvii, 140 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 25 cm
"Harold Falkner was an early 20th-century architect who deserves to be much better known. He produced an astonishing variety of buildings, especially in the Farnham area, and was much featured in the architectural press, which also reproduced many of his drawings, for he was a talented artist. Educated in the Arts and Crafts movement, he saw architecture as an art rather than as engineering. A near-contemporary of Lutyens and a lifelong friend of Gertrude Jekyll, he lived in the same corner of south-west Surrey and never built outside it." "In the course of a long career he used a range of styles, from Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne, through neo-Georgian to Tudor, creating buildings which look so convincingly old that they confuse experts. He refused to go along with the Modern Movement and paid the price in relative obscurity. Yet Nikolaus Pevsner wrote his obituary for The Architectural Review, in which journal his buildings were "rediscovered" as the work of an eccentric genius six years after his death. Since then Falkner has been the subject of many university dissertations but no biography - until now." "This new book will appeal to a wide range of readers, not only students of architecture and those interested in the controversy over Modernism, but all who appreciate Harold Falkner's key contribution to the preservation of Farnham as one of the best Georgian towns in England."--BOOK JACKET.
1860772536
9781860772535
Falkner, Harold, 1875-1963.
Falkner, Harold 1875-1963
Falkner, Harold.
Architects England Biography.
Architecture, Domestic England Farnham (Surrey)
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architects.
Architecture, Domestic.
England.
England Farnham (Surrey)
Biographies.
Location: Library main 278848
Call No.: BIB 214554
Status: Available
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