About the Book
This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to students of Art History and Architecture.
Table of Contents:
Volume 2
Part 1: 1830-1870
1. Earl de Grey, ‘History of Wrest Park’, (April, 1846).
2. J. C. Loudon, ‘Principles for Designing Villas’, in Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture (1833), pp. 773-7, 792.
3. George Wightwick, ‘Anglo-Italian Villa’, in The Palace of Architecture (1840), pp. 201-7.
4. Benjamin Ferrey, ‘Letter’ and ‘Life at the Grange, Ramsgate’, in Recollections of A.W.N. Pugin (1861), pp. 83-7, 176-8.
5. A.W.N. Pugin, Contrasts (1836/1841), pp. 16-17.
6. A. W. N. Pugin, True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841), pp. 1, 56-63.
7. J.L. Petit, Remarks on Church Architecture (1841), vol. 1, pp. 6-14, 206-10; vol.2, pp. 151-6
8. John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849, Everyman ed.), pp. 102-03, 122-23, 187, 199-201.
9. John Ruskin, ‘The Nature of Gothic’, Stones of Venice (1853 [1905 ed.]), pp. 198-203.
10. John Ruskin, Lectures on Architecture (1853)
11. George Gilbert Scott, Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture (1857), pp. 6-9, 146-53, 171-7, 209-212
12. George Gilbert Scott, Personal and Professional Recollections (1879 ed.), pp. 197-201, 210-1, 271-2, 358-361, 372-3
13. T. G. Jackson, ‘On Gilbert Scott’s Office’, in Recollections (1950 ed.), pp. 58-61.
14. Robert Kerr, The Gentleman’s House (2nd ed.1865), pp. 66-9, 250-1, 340-5.
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15. James Fergusson, History of the Modern Styles of Architecture (2nd ed., 1873, 3rd ed. 1891), pp. 297-9, 328-9, 477-91.
16. John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera 29 (Library ed., vol. 3, May 1873), pp. 528-30.
17. C. L. Eastlake, History of the Gothic Revival (1872), pp. 251-4.
18. A. E. Street, Memoir of George Edmund Street (1881), pp. 43-5, 60-1, 114-7.
19. J. Cubitt, Church Design for Congregations (1870), pp. 100-05.
20. Evan Leigh, ‘The Gidlow Mill at Wigan’, The Science of Modern Cotton Spinning (vol. 2, 1875), pp. 196-7.
21. On Model Dwellings’ and ‘Halifax Town Hall’, Extracts from The Builder, vol. 7 (1849) p. 325-26, vol. 18 (1860), pp. 39-41.
Part 2: 1870-1914
22. Henry James, English Hours (1872), pp. 76-79.
23. C. L Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste (1868 [1872, 2nd ed.), pp. 18-24, 30-32
24. E. R. Robson, School Architecture (1877), pp. 296-98, 323-27.
25. J. J. Stevenson, House Architecture (1880), pp. 152-155, 348-49
26. Robert Kerr, ‘English Architecture Thirty Years Hence’, RIBA Transactions 34 (1883-4), pp. 307-310.
27. 27.1 William Morris, ‘The Revival of Architecture’, Fortnightly Review, May , pp. 326-330.
27.2 William Morris, ‘Letters on Church Restorations’, The Athenaeum, 10 March 1877 and The Times, 10 August 1890.
28. W. R. Lethaby, Philip Webb and his Work (1935), pp. 116-18, 122-30.
29. Henry Heathcote Statham, Modern Architecture (1897), pp. 124-128, 254-256, 265-267.
30. Gertrude Jekyll, Home and Garden (1900), pp. 1-2, 6-12, 14-16, 18.
31. Raymond Parker & Barry Unwin, The Art of Building a Home (1901), pp. 7-8, 83-108.
32. H. Muthesius, ‘The Smaller Country House’, in The English House (1904, [1979 ed.]), pp. 124-127.
33. M. H. Baillie Scott, Houses and Gardens (1906), pp. 40-43.
34. C. Hussey, ‘Edwin Lutyens on Heathcote, Yorkshire’, in The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens ((1950), p. 133.
35. H. B. Cresswell, ‘Aston Webb and his Office’ (1958), reprinted in A. Service, (ed.), Edwardian Architecture and its Origins (Architectural Press, 1975), pp. 330-336.
36. ‘Brydon at Bath’, Architectural Review 1905, 18, 104, pp. 4-9
37. ‘Cardiff City Hall and Law Courts’, Architectural Review, 20, 120, 1906, pp. 233-242.
38. ‘The First Garden City’, Architectural Review, 18, 104, 1905, pp. 15, 17, 19-21.
39. ‘The Kodak Building, Kingsway, London’, Architectural Review, 30, 181, 1911, pp. 336, 338-341.
About the Author :
Dr Geoffrey Tyack is an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College in the University of Oxford and a member of the University’s Faculty of History. He has taught architectural history and the history of urban planning for many years, both in Britain and the United States, and continues to lecture widely and to teach Oxford postgraduate and undergraduate students. He is President of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, a council member of the London Topographical Society and a long-standing member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Victorian Society.
