The classical buildings of Bath / Mike Jenner.

Main entry:

Jenner, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

The classical buildings of Bath / Mike Jenner.

Publication:

Bristol : Redcliffe, 2013.

Description:

208 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Bath and the ravages of time -- ch. 2 Aquae Sulis -- ch. 3 Bath before John Wood -- ch. 4 John Wood -- ch. 5 Hill climbing -- ch. 6 Bathwick -- ch. 7 Transformation of the city centre -- ch. 8 From Attica to Tuscany -- ch. 9 The later nineteenth century and beyond.

Summary:

Architect Mike Jenner describes Bath's more notable classical buildings, explains the rules to which they were expected to conform, and tells how a few geniuses broke them to move European architecture and urban planning triumphantly forward. The book ranges from the Roman era through eighteenth-century showpieces such as John Wood's Circus and Royal Crescent to the controversial late twentieth-century Cavendish Lodge. The author shows how the problem of designing buildings which fit harmoniously into their context is not new, and gives examples of eighteenth-century classical buildings in Bath which caused serious visual damage to the earlier ones around them. He explains how this reflected the see-saw of fashion, with the work of every generation despised and rejected by the next, and then brought back into esteem by a later one. The Classical Buildings of Bath demonstrates the pleasure to be obtained from looking at classical buildings with proper understanding and the benefit of Stephen Morris' superlative photographs.

ISBN:

1908326034
9781908326034

Subject:

Architecture England Bath.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Bath (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England Bath.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284798
Call No.: BIB 223987
Status: Available

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