Title & Author:

Function and fantasy : iron architecture in the long nineteenth century / edited by Paul Dobraszczyk and Peter Sealy.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Description:

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 FORMATIONS -- 1. London's Crystal Palace and Its Decorative Iron Construction / John W. Stamper -- 2. Paleostructure: Biological, Spiritual, and Architectural Evolution at the Oxford Museum / Nathaniel Robert Walker -- 3. Mimesis Recast: Artistic Production in the Aftermath of Neoclassicism / Axel Sowa -- 4. Richard Lucae and the Aesthetics of Space in the Age of Iron / Jasper Cepl -- pt. 2 EXCHANGES -- 5. From Rational to Structurally Ornamental: Exported English Iron Architecture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Jonathan Clarke -- 6. Scottish Cast Iron in Argentina: Its Role in the British Informal Imperial System / Lucia Juarez -- 7. Utility and Beauty: Iron Architecture in Jamaica, 1800 -- 1908 / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- 8. Corrugated Iron: Forming New Perceptions in the Australian Landscape / Anne Wan -- pt. 3 TRANSFORMATIONS -- 9. Meta-Ornament: Iron and the Railway Station in Britain / Paul Dobraszczyk -- 10. Dreams in Iron: The Wish Image in Emile Zola's Novels / Peter Sealy -- 11. Casting Aspersions: Debating Iron Ornament in New York's East River Bridges / Charles Rosenblum.

Summary:

The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century. Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart - for the first time - the global reach of iron's architectural reception, from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into architecture's traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of its structural and ornamental roles.

ISBN:

9781472430007 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
147243000X (hbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebk)
9781472430014
(epub)
9781472430021
9781138490444 (paperback)
9781315583648
113849044X (paperback)

Subject:

Building, Iron and steel History 19th century.
Construction métallique Histoire 19e siècle.
Building, Iron and steel.
Eisenarchitektur

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, editor.
Sealy, Peter, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293451
Call No.: BIB 238416
Status: Available