Classical Buildings of Bath

Mike Jenner

ISBN 10: 1908326034 / ISBN 13: 9781908326034

Published by Redcliffe, 2013

About this Item

Written by the architect Mike Jenner and illustrated with over 150 photographs, mostly by Stephen Morris, this volume aims to give an appreciation and understanding of ?the classical street-building tradition as exemplified in Bath?. Jenner sketches the city?s history prior to 1700, then discusses its transformation into a fashionable spa, examining the contributions of architects, notably John Wood and Robert Adam, and the dictates of fashion and finance behind changing architectural style.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classical Buildings of Bath
• Publisher: Redcliffe
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908326034
• ISBN 13: 9781908326034
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Architect Mike Jenner describes Bath's more notable classical buildings, explains the rules to which they were expected to conform, and tells how a few geniuses broke them to move European architecture and urban planning triumphantly forward. The book ranges from the Roman era through eighteenth-century showpieces such as John Wood's Circus and Royal Crescent to the controversial late twentieth-century Cavendish Lodge.

The author shows how the problem of designing buildings which fit harmoniously into their context is not new, and gives examples of eighteenth-century classical buildings in Bath which caused serious visual damage to the earlier ones around them. He explains how this reflected the see-saw of fashion, with the work of every generation despised and rejected by the next, and then brought back into esteem by a later one.

The Classical Buildings of Bath demonstrates the pleasure to be obtained from looking at classical buildings with proper understanding and the benefit of Stephen Morris' superlative photographs.

About the Author

Architect Mike Jenner has written and broadcast widely on architecture, having made 53 television films. He is joint author of the standard history of Bristol's architecture and in 2010 wrote the highly acclaimed Bristol s 100 Best Buildings, published by Redcliffe Press.