Oxford: An Architectural Guide - Softcover

Howard, Peter; Webster, Helena

9781899858477: Oxford: An Architectural Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899858474 ISBN 13: 9781899858477

Publisher: Ellipsis London Pr Ltd, 1999

Oxford represents a microcosm of the architectural history of Britain as a whole, and as such this book is more than just a concise guide to the city's most celebrated buildings. Howard and Webster write knowledgeably about the city, highlighting, for example, how the collegiate system of buildings arranged around a courtyard influenced Britain's architecture for more than four centuries, while revealing how patrons and benefactors, who were some of the most powerful people in the land, worked with architects and master-masons of the caliber of Wren, Hawksmoor, the Peisleys, and Scott. The twentieth century has also succumbed to Oxford's mix of the traditional and the innovative, with Leslie Martin, Rick Mather, and Hodder Associates, for example, mixing the concepts and techniques of today with the ideals and materials of the past to create new and exciting architecture.

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About the Author:

Peter Howard is an architect based in Milton Keynes. Helena Websiet teaches architecture at Oxford Brookes University.

Review:

Perfectly designed little squares of guides ... stylish companions for the sophisticated traveller, and modestly priced. -- The Times [London]

The best true pocket guides to new architecture are by the young publisher, Ellipsis....Small, perfectly formed, and not a little opinionated. -- Sunday Times [London]

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