Title & Author:

John Soane, architect : master of space and light / edited by Margaret Richardson and MaryAnne Stevens.

Publication:

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [1999?]

Description:

302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'John Soane, architect', held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 Sept. - 3 Dec. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ptolemy Dean -- Beginnings and early training / Gillian Darley -- A Royal Academy student in architecture / Nicholas Savage -- The grand tour / Gillian Darley -- Early practice: country houses and the primitive / Ptolemy Dean -- Wimpole Hall / Christopher Woodward -- Tyringham / Margaret Richardson -- Pitzhanger Manor / Heather Ewing -- The Soane family tomb / Christopher Woodward -- Pell Wall / John Wibberley, Barry Clayton -- The Bank of England / Daniel Abramson.
Sponsor's preface -- President's foreword -- Exhibition organisation -- Acknowledgements and lenders to the exhibition -- Soane: the man and his circle / Gillian Darley -- Soane's spaces and the matter of fragmentation / Robin Middleton -- Soane: the royal academician and the public realm / David Watkin -- Soane's legacy / Margaret Richardson -- 'Wall, ceiling, enclosure and light': Soane's designs for domes / Christopher Woodward -- Soane: the pragmetic architect.
The Processional Route / Sean Sawyer -- Freemasons' Hall / David Watkin -- The Law Courts / Sean Sawyer -- Imaginative compositions / Margaret Richardson -- Chronology -- Chronological list of Soane's building projects -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Photographic acknowledgements.

Summary:

"Without doubt the most brilliant architectural innovator of his day, Sir John Soane RA (1753-1837) displayed a remarkable ability to adapt and modernise the language of classical architecture. The range of his built designs, from the ingenuity of his own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields (later left in trust to the nation) to the opulence and originality of the Bank of England, places him on a par with other leading European Neoclassicists, such as Ledoux and Schinkel. His architectural vocabulary remains influential to this day." "This catalogue is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts of Soane's plans, drawings, perspectives and models, many of which have never before been released for exhibition by the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0900946806 paperback
9780900946806
0300081952
9780300081954
0300018952

Subject:

Soane, John, 1753-1837 Exhibitions.
Soane, John, 1753-1837
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) Exhibitions.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Expositions.
Architects
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Gebouwen.
Great Britain
4.240.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Quotations (texts)
Biographies

Added entries:

Richardson, Margaret (Margaret Ann)
Stevens, Mary Anne.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 208651
Call No.: NA44.S676.23 J6 1999
Copy: 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 215870
Call No.: NA44.S676.23 J6 1999
Copy: 2 pbk.
Notes: paperback
Status: Available