Edwardian Architecture: Handbook to Building Design in Britain, 1890-1914 (World of Art S.)

Service, Alastair

ISBN 10: 0500201552 / ISBN 13: 9780500201558

Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 1977

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edwardian Architecture: Handbook to Building Design in Britain, 1890-1914 (World of Art S.)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500201552
• ISBN 13: 9780500201558
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The background of the period 1890-1914 in Great Britain -- Arts and crafts architecture -- the house -- The free style and large buildings -- Public buildings and the baroque revival -- Church architecture -- late Gothic and Byzantine -- Free design and the Edwardian house -- Large buildings and the Edwardian free style -- The Edwardian arts and crafts churches -- Towards rationalism -- offices and factories -- High Edwardian baroque -- The Beaux-arts influence on Edwardian classicism -- The neo-Georgian house -- Palaces of prosperity -- variations on the Grand Manner. Leading architectures and some of their buildings 1890-1914.

About the Author

Service was educated at Westminster School and the Queen's College, Oxford. He is a member of the committee of the Victorian Society.