Main entry:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

Title & Author:

The unromantic castle and other essays ... / John Summerson.

Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Sequel to His Heavenly mansions and other essays on architecture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The Unromantic Castle -- II. John Thorpe and the Thorpes of Kingscliffe -- III. Inigo Jones: Covent Garden and the Restoration of St Paul's Cathedral -- IV. Christopher Wren: Why Architecture? -- V. The Penultimate Design for St Paul's Cathedral -- VI. The Classical Country House in 18th-century England -- VII. Sir John Soane and the Furniture of Death -- VIII. The Evolution of Soane's Bank Stock Office in the Bank of England -- IX. Charting the Victorian Building World -- X. The London Building World of the 1860s -- XI. The Victorian Rebuilding of the City of London,1840-1870 -- XII. The London Suburban Villa, 1850-1880 -- XIII. The British Contemporaries of Frank Lloyd Wright -- XIV. Arches of Triumph: Sir Edwin Lutyens's Design for the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool -- XV. The Case for a Theory of 'Modern' Architecture.

ISBN:

0500341125
9780500341124

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture
Architektur
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte (1550-1950)
Great Britain
Großbritannien
England
Architecture England
Architecture History

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56831
Call No.: ID:90-B5128
Status: Available