BATH - An Architectural Guide

Thom Gorst

ISBN 10: 1899858288 / ISBN 13: 9781899858286

Published by Ellipsis London Limited, 1997

About this Item

A mini pocket book that provides an overview of the architecture in the English city of Bath. It covers all the notable building in this architecturally rich city. Illustrated with b/w photographs, one to a page with a brief description of the building on the facing page. Measures 4" x 4" with 312 pages. in excellent condition with no marks of any kind.

Seller Inventory # E5124

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BATH - An Architectural Guide
• Publisher: Ellipsis London Limited
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899858288
• ISBN 13: 9781899858286
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Photographs by Keith Collie
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • History

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Synopsis

The city of Bath sits in a bowl of hills at the southern tip of the Cotswolds. It was here that the Romans established their city of Aquae Sulis, and it was here too that eighteenth-century English society settled in the refined luxury of the architecture we now call Georgian. These are the elegant and dramatic squares, crescents, and terraces, built in solid golden local stone, that form Bath's core and that give this comparatively small city its international reputation. But Bath is not just a museum of a long-passed phenomenon. It is a living urban organism, of just the right size to live in. The Victorians and Edwardians built here, sometimes indecorously, and contemporary architects including Nicholas Grimsahw, Aaron Evans and the Smithsons have work worth visiting in or near the city. This guide covers all Bath's notable architecture and places it in the context of the social and economic forces that have shaped the city.

About the Author

Thom Gorst teaches architecture at the University of Bath.