The Birth of Modern London: The Development and Design of the City, 1660-1720 (Studies in Design and Material Culture) - Softcover

McKellar, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719040760 ISBN 13: 9780719040764

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

The period between 1660-1720 witnessed the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed after the great fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed building into a landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This book examines the building boom of the period, and the speculative developers who created that landscape, their working practices, the role of craftsmen, and the design thinking which led to the creation of a new prototype for English housing. Focusing on this period as a distinct phase in London's architectural development, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of the adoption of Renaissance styles.

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Elizabeth McKellar is Lecturer in Art History at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Elizabeth McKellar is Lecturer in Art History at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0719040760
• ISBN 13: 9780719040764
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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