Title & Author:

Neo-Georgian architecture 1880-1970 : a reappraisal / edited by Julian Holder and Elizabeth McKellar.

Publication:

Swindon : Historic England, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xvi, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Re-appraising the Neo-Georgian / Julian Holder & Elizabeth McKellar -- Origins of the Neo-Georgian. Quality in Quality Street? The Neo-Georgian style and its place in architectural history / Alan Powers ; The Call to Order: Neo-Georgian and the Liverpool School of Architecture / Peter Richmond ; Georgian London before Georgian London: Beresford Chancellor, Rasmussen and 'The True and Sad Story of The Regent's Street' / Elizabeth McKellar -- Developing the Neo-Georgian language. Edwin Luytens (1869--1944): Wrenaissance to Neo-Georgian / Margaret Richardson ; Emmanuel Vincent Harris (1876--1971): civic, civil, and sane / Julian Holder and Nick Holmes ; Giles Gilbert Scott (1880--1960) and classical architecture / Gavin Stamp ; C H James (1893--1953): Neo-Georgian -- from the small house to the town hall /Nick Chapple -- Establishing a new tradition; typologies of the Neo-Georgian. Bankers' Georgian / Neil Burton ; A State of Approval: Neo-Georgian architecture and His Majesty's Office of Works, 1914--1939 / Julian Holder ; Neo-Georgian: the other style in British twentieth-century university architecture / William Whyte -- Neo-Georgian; a prelude to Modernism? 'Modern Swedish rococo': the Neo-Georgian interior in Britain, c 1920--c 1945 / Clare Taylor ; 'A live universal language': The Georgian as Motif in inter-War British Architectural Modernism / Elizabeth Darling -- Global Neo-Georgian. The Neo-Georgian in New Zealand, 1918--1940 / Ian Lochhead ; 'Phony Coloney': the Reception of the Georgian and the Construction of Twentieth-century America / Stephen Hague.

Summary:

"This publication investigates how, where, when and why the Neo-Georgian has been represented over the course of the last century. It assesses its impact as a broader cultural phenomenon through a consideration of its buildings, objects, institutions, and actors. It contends that this was not another dying gasp of Revivalism restricted to 1920s Britain but a complex assertion of national image and identity with its origins before and its influence extending beyond this 'lost' decade, well into the post-WWII period. Different ideologies have been attached to the Neo-Georgian at different times and places, particularly notions of home, nation, gender and class. The papers explore the construction, reception and historiography of 'the Georgian' throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth century -- and most particularly its relationship to modernism -- through discussion of a range of building types, planning (including the new concept of Civic Design) and design generally. The expansion of the public sector in the twentieth century saw Neo-Georgian embraced for a wide variety of buildings and sites. Re-interpretations and adaptations of the Georgian have been a constant theme over the past century and constitute a powerful and enduring strand in Anglophile culture across the globe. The papers consider interpretations of the Neo-Georgian not only in England but in places as diverse as New Zealand and America"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781848022355
1848022352

Subject:

Architecture, Georgian Great Britain.
Revival movements (Art) Great Britain.
Architecture Georgian Grande-Bretagne.
Mouvements de renouveau (Art) Grande-Bretagne.
Revival movements (Art)
Architecture, Georgian.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Holder, Julian, editor.
McKellar, Elizabeth, editor.

Neo-Georgian architecture eighteen-eighty to nineteen-seventy

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294858
Call No.: BIB 240758
Status: Available