Download or read book Sir Herbert Baker written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the leading architect to the British Empire. From London, through the commemoration of the empire's war dead in France, via South Africa and Australia to India, he celebrated the might of an empire that once ruled a quarter of the world. He was an intimate friend of many of most fascinating men of his age, including Cecil Rhodes, Lawrence of Arabia, John Buchan, Jan Smuts and, of course, his fellow architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. After a Victorian architectural apprenticeship in London and on to becoming the most prolific architect of his age in South Africa, he built the new imperial capital of New Delhi in India with Lutyens, before returning to London. These built or rebuilt such landmark buildings as the Bank of England, South Africa House, India House, Rhodes House, and the stands for Lords Cricket Ground, as well as numerous churches and private houses.
Download or read book The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife Lady Emily written by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1985 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representing the State written by Wolfgang Sonne and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Sonne examines the relationship between urban design and politics in five major capital cities, all of which underwent comprehensive planning at the beginning of the twentieth century: Washington, Berlin, Canberra, New Delhi and the World Centre of Communication, a proposed international capital of peace. With more than 150 illustrations, this book explores the evolution of the ambitious urban design schemes of the period and the difficulty in integrating architecture with the political ideals it endeavours to represent. Book jacket.
Download or read book Uncertain Dimensions written by Raymond F. Betts and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ruling and development of colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia by Great Britain and France during the period between the world wars
Download or read book Herbert Baker written by Michael Keath and published by Ashanti Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwin Lutyens written by Gavin Stamp and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired without reservation, commissioning Lutyens to design the magazine’s of?ces in Covent Garden in 1904, as well as three country houses. Country Life published articles about virtually all his buildings shortly after their completion, recording them as the architect intended, creating an unparalleled visual archive which is the source for this selection of outstanding photographs of Lutyens’s domestic architecture. Gavin Stamp’s authoritative introduction places Lutyens ?rmly among the giants of architecture: ‘an architect of rare genius and humanity.’ His selection of twenty-two houses, representative of all the phases of Lutyens’s career, illustrates the architect’s dual achievements as a renewer of both vernacular tradition and of the Classical language of architecture. Debate continues about Lutyens’s place in modern architecture, but his legacy of some of the most inventive and romantic examples of British domestic architecture is unquestionable. There are superb examples of his Surrey vernacular style (with its gables, timber, and sweeping planes of tiled roof), such as Fulbrook House—one of his earliest masterpieces; Deanery Garden, designed with the garden in mind for Hudson; early Arts and Crafts houses, such as Goddards and Little Thakeham; his carefully composed Classical houses, such as Heathcote, and his grandest country house of all, Middleton Park, built between the two World Wars. Here, too, are examples of his brilliant enlargements and alterations to existing buildings, such as Lindisfarne Castle, and his creation of the epitome of castle style: Castle Drogo. This pictorial survey culminates in Lutyens’s most famous creation: Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, one of the greatest buildings in the world. Founded in 1897, Country Life from the outset published remarkable photographs, and the huge in?uence the magazine exerted was nowhere more apparent than in its unprecedented championship of Edwin Lutyens, whose buildings it promoted for almost ?fty years. For this book, two hundred photographs have been beautifully reproduced from the Country Life archive and, combined with Gavin Stamp’s illuminating essay, provide a unique survey of one of Britain’s foremost architects.
Download or read book Architecture in Manuscript 1601 1996 written by British Architectural Library and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first guide to the single most comprehensive source of unpublished documentary material on the history of architecture, this major reference work will be essential for anyone seeking source material for the study of architectural history and practice and for the conservation and restoration of the architectural heritage. The British Architectural Library's manuscript and archives collection at the Royal Institute of British Architects is unrivalled in the breadth and extent of its holdings of unpublished material relating to the theory and practice of architecture. The collection, which started soon after the founding of the RIBA in 1834, includes material dating from the early seventeenth century to the present day, ranging from an account of charges for the repair of Richmond Palace supervised by Inigo Jones in 1621-22, to the papers of Berthold Lubetkin. Architecture in Manuscript provides a practical guide to the contents and use of this large and important collection, and will enable researchers, librarians and archivists to locate original source material whose existence has hitherto been very little known. The guide consi
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain written by Kenneth O. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arrival of the Roman legions to the present day, this superbly illustrated volume tells the enthralling story of Britain and her people over two thousand years. 200+ b&w illustrations. of color plates.
Download or read book Lutyens the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1869 1944 written by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and published by [London] : Arts Council of Great Britain. This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lutyens Abroad written by Andrew Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume offer the first serious examination of Sir Edwin Lutyens's hugely significant work beyond Great Britain. With the exception of New Delhi, far less attention has been paid to Lutyens's work abroad than to his work at home. Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) made his name by designing romantic vernacular weekend houses at home in southern England: however, he also responded to opportunities offered by Britain's Imperial ambitions abroad. The studies in this volume offer the first serious examination of Sir Edwin Lutyens's hugely significant work beyond Great Britain. With the exception of New Delhi, far less attention has been paid to Lutyens's work abroad than to his work at home - some buildings, indeed, being almost unknown - although it is arguable that his finest creations, works of transcendent humanity and originality within the Western tradition, are to be found along the former battlefields of the Western Front and the hot plains of India.
Download or read book Reconstruction written by Neal Shasore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment – examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. This volume reveals how the architectural developments of this period not only provided important foundations for what happened after 1945 – they are also of real significance in their own right. Sixteen essays written by leading and emerging scholars bring together new and diverse approaches to the period – a period of reconstruction, fraught with the challenges of modernity and democratisation. The collection considers the complex effects of reconstruction on design, discourse, practice, and professionalism, and deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, and makes important postcolonial interventions into the architectural history of British Imperialism at home and in its far reaches; in Cairo, South Africa, Australia, and India.
Download or read book A Work of Beauty written by Narayani Gupta and published by Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive volume documents the entire landscape around and architecture of the Rastrapati Bhavan estate, starting from its construction as Government House, after the capital of British India shifted from calcutta to Delhi in 1911.
Download or read book The Fallen written by John Garfield and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting photographic journey through the vast war cemeteries and memorials of the Great War of 1914-1918.
Download or read book Committed to Classicism written by Cinzia Maria Sicca and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Recovery of the Modern written by Michael Spens and published by Architectural Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the centenary of the "Architectural Review", this is a collection of critical writing and historical discourse drawn from the issues between 1980 and 1995. It includes review articles by distinguished academics, on topics such as postmodernism, High-tech design and landscape design.
Download or read book Landscapes of the First World War written by Selena Daly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industrial and urban landscapes, cross-cultural encounters, and legacies of the war. The chapters cover Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and the US, drawing on a range of approaches including battlefield archaeology, military history, medical humanities, architecture, literary analysis and environmental history. This volume explores the environmental impact of the war on diverse landscapes and how landscapes shaped soldiers’ experiences at the front. It investigates how rural and urban locales were mobilised to cater to the demands of industry and agriculture. The enduring physical scars and the role of landscape as a crucial locus of memory and commemoration are also analysed. The chapter 'The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Download or read book Dome Over India written by Aman Nath and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book : - Rashtrapati Bhavan, formerly Government or Viceroy's House, is today the official residence of the President of India. In Dome Over India, Aman Nath provides a fresh interpretation of the legacy of its controversial architect, Edwin Landseer Lutyens. With a mix of history, anecdote, and architectural analysis, he takes the reader on a tour of a palace larger than Versailles, revealing the imposing structure as never before. Richly illustrated, this book will be an exhilarating experience for anyone interested in history, architecture, and interiors. About the Author : - Aman Nath has a Masters degree in history. Engaged in the restoration of historical properties now run as the heritage chain of Neemrana non-hotel Hotels, Nath has also been actively involved with Indias contemporary art since the 1970s. He is the author of several books including Jaipur: The Last Destination, Horizons: The Tata-India Century and Jodhpurs Umaid Bhawan.
