Title & Author:

Spirit of the age / Alec Clifton-Taylor [and others].

Publication:

London : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975.

Description:

240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
An expanded version of the BBC television series Spirit of the age.
Includes index.
Index.
The Medieval world Alec Clifton-Taylor -- A new heaven, a new earth / Roy Strong -- The cult of grandeur / Robert Furneaux Jordan -- A sense of proportion / John Julius Norwich -- Landscape within buildings / John Summerson -- All that money could buy / Mark Girouard -- A full life and an honest place / Patrick Nuttgens -- Dreams and awakenings / Hugh Casson.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Architecture is the most public of arts, leaving visible evidence of the character of an age. Each of the eight chapters in this book, which is an expanded version of the BBC television series Spirit of the Age, looks at what was built during a period of British history. They give architecture a social and intellectual context, and relate what was built to economic and political, as well as aesthetic ideas." -- Book Jacket.

ISBN:

0563128976
9780563128977

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History.
Architecture and history Great Britain.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture et histoire Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Architecture and history
Great Britain
Architecture Great Britain, to 1974

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Clifton-Taylor, Alec, contributor.
British Broadcasting Corporation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121629
Call No.: W8388; ID:85-B20623
Status: Available