Entrée principale:

Curl, James Stevens, 1937-

Titre et auteur:

Victorian architecture / James Stevens Curl.

Publication:

Newton Abbot : David & Charles ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Sterling Pub. Co., ©1990.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Distributor from label on title page.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-303) and index.
Victorian age : Victorian urbanisation -- Reform & change : Facts, surveys & the evangelical conscience -- High-church influence -- Beautiful, picturesque & the sublime -- Question of style : Pugin -- Eccesiologists -- John Ruskin -- E.E. Viollet-le-duc -- Neoclassicism & the Egyptian revival -- Tudor & seventeenth-century revivals -- Romanesque revival -- Italianate style -- Scottish-Baronial style -- Rundbogenstil -- Rogue goths & the later gothic revival -- Domestic revival, vernacular revival, arts & crafts, Queen Anne style & Renaissance revival -- Free eclecticism -- French taste -- End of the century & the classical revival -- Philanthropic housing & the concern for the underdog : Model dwellings & model villages : Henry Roberts & the society for improing the condition of the labouring classes -- Saltaire, Yorkshire -- Copley, Akroydon & Bournville -- Port Sunlight, Chesire -- Domestic architecture apart from the philanthropic & model housing : Ladbroke Estate -- Norland Estate -- Example of Glasgow & the houses of Alexander Thomson -- Summing-up -- New materials & new challenges : Development of structures of iron & glass -- Crystal Palace -- Railway termini -- Other iron structures -- Traffic relief, reform & hygiene : Schemes for traffic relief & improving of communications -- Urban hygiene -- Steel bridges -- Institutional buildings -- Buildings for leisure : Gin-palaces & the transformation of the urban publis house -- Clubs, hotels & restaurants -- Theatres -- Architecture & landscapes associated with the disposal of the dead : Position in Britain & elsewhere -- Movement to establish cemetaries -- British cemetaries -- Landscape design of later cemetaries -- Arbroath mortuary chapel -- Monument -- Civic buildings -- Commercial buildings.
English.

ISBN:

0715391445
9780715391440

Sujet:

Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain History 19th century.
Architecture victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Victorian.
Architektur
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Great Britain Buildings, 1837-1900. Architectural features

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 55716
Cote: ID:90-B4184
Statut: Disponible