Entrée principale:

Booker, John, 1941-

Titre et auteur:

Temples of Mammon : the architecture of banking / John Booker.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Distributed in North America by Columbia University Press, ©1990.

Description:

xviii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-341) and index.
The era of private banking -- From Fleet Street to Corn Street: the impact of joint-stock banking -- The early savings banks -- High Victorian confidence and experimentation -- Tradition in disarray -- The twentieth century: prestige gained, lost and coveted.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

This historical study traces the architectural styles of UK banks from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating how architects adopted ideas from Venice and Elizabethan Britain to give banking buildings respectability and continuity.

ISBN:

0748601988
9780748601981

Sujet:

Bank buildings Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain.
Banques (Édifices) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Bank buildings
Architektur
Bank
Bankgebäude
Geschichte
Historic buildings Great Britain.
Banks and banking Great Britain.
Great Britain
England
Großbritannien
Banks Architecture History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 57299
Cote: ID:90-B5665
Statut: Disponible