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Professor Brunskill's Traditional Buildings of Britain, the standard book on the subject, dealt largely with the exteriors of vernacular buildings. Houses and Cottages, based on the author's earlier researches and taking into particular account the archaeological and documentary discoveries of the last decade, looks inside the buildings and shows how and why they were originally planned and how they have evolved, often from very simple structures. It reveals in the process a great amount of fascinating information about the life-styles of the people for whom the houses were built, both in terms of their work and of their social lives. There are detailed chapters on materials and methods of construction and on rooms and their uses, all of which provide further insights into why structures as we see them now developed in the way they did from the original plan forms.
Copiously illustrated with the author's excellent plan and line drawings and with photographs, Houses and Cottages of Britain is an intriguing book which will have a wide appeal not only to architects, planners and conservationists, but also to the great body of people who enjoy looking at traditional buildings and recreating the patterns of life of earlier generations.
Copiously illustrated with the author's excellent plan and line drawings and with photographs, Houses and Cottages of Britain is an intriguing book which will have a wide appeal not only to architects, planners and conservationists, but also to the great body of people who enjoy looking at traditional buildings and recreating the patterns of life of earlier generations.
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Professor R W Brunskill OBE, formerly reader in Architecture at the University of Manchester, practised as an architect and has been deeply involved in the study of vernacular architecture for many years. He is a former Commissioner of English Heritage and is Vice-Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Chairman of the Ancient Monuments Society and of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0575063211
- ISBN 13 9780575063211
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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