Main entry:

Crinson, Mark.

Title & Author:

Empire building : orientalism and Victorian architecture / Mark Crinson.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Description:

xvi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.
pt. I. Orientalism and Architecture. 1. Useful knowledge: interpreting Islamic architecture, 1700-1840. 2. South-savage: interpreting Islamic architecture, 1840-70. 3. Oriental Byzantium: interpreting Byzantine architecture, 1840-70 -- pt. II. Architecture and the Orient. 4. Architecture in captivity: James Wild and St Mark's, Alexandria. 5. The spectacle of alliance: British architecture in Istanbul. 6. Dignified progress: later British architecture in Egypt. 7. New Jerusalems: evangelical architecture in Jerusalem.

Summary:

Illustrated throughout, Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415139406 (hbk.)
9780415139403 (hbk.)
0415139414 (pbk.)
9780415139410 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain Islamic influences.
Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
Exoticism in architecture Great Britain.
Islamic architecture Middle East Influence.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Influence islamique.
Architecture victorienne Grande-Bretagne.
Exotisme en architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Islamic influences.
Architecture, Victorian.
Exoticism in architecture.
Bouwkunst.
Oriëntalisme.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Architecture, Victorian Middle East.
Architecture, English Middle East Islamic influences.
Architecture, English Middle East Byzantine influences.
Architecture, Modern Islamic influences.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Byzantine influences.
Exoticism in literature.
Great Britain.
Middle East.
Bouwkunst Oriëntalisme Victoriaanse tijd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122720
Call No.: NA967.5.V53.C75 (ID:96-B984)
Status: Available