Function and fantasy : iron architecture in the long nineteenth century / edited by Paul Dobraszczyk and Peter Sealy.

Title & Author:

Function and fantasy : iron architecture in the long nineteenth century / edited by Paul Dobraszczyk and Peter Sealy.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Description:

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 FORMATIONS -- 1. London's Crystal Palace and Its Decorative Iron Construction / John W. Stamper -- 2. Paleostructure: Biological, Spiritual, and Architectural Evolution at the Oxford Museum / Nathaniel Robert Walker -- 3. Mimesis Recast: Artistic Production in the Aftermath of Neoclassicism / Axel Sowa -- 4. Richard Lucae and the Aesthetics of Space in the Age of Iron / Jasper Cepl -- pt. 2 EXCHANGES -- 5. From Rational to Structurally Ornamental: Exported English Iron Architecture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Jonathan Clarke -- 6. Scottish Cast Iron in Argentina: Its Role in the British Informal Imperial System / Lucia Juarez -- 7. Utility and Beauty: Iron Architecture in Jamaica, 1800 -- 1908 / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- 8. Corrugated Iron: Forming New Perceptions in the Australian Landscape / Anne Wan -- pt. 3 TRANSFORMATIONS -- 9. Meta-Ornament: Iron and the Railway Station in Britain / Paul Dobraszczyk -- 10. Dreams in Iron: The Wish Image in Emile Zola's Novels / Peter Sealy -- 11. Casting Aspersions: Debating Iron Ornament in New York's East River Bridges / Charles Rosenblum.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

ISBN:

9781472430007 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
147243000X (hbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebk)
9781472430014
(epub)
9781472430021

Subject:

Building, Iron and steel History 19th century.
Construction métallique Histoire 19e siècle.
Building, Iron and steel.
Eisenarchitektur
Building, Iron and Steel History 19th century.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, editor.
Sealy, Peter, editor.
Dobraszczyk, Paul. editor.
Sealy, Peter editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293451
Call No.: BIB 238416
Status: Available

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