Conor Lucey

Building reputations

Architecture and the artisan, 1750-1830

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781526119940
• ISBN-10: 1526119943
• Artikelnr.: 51303385

Autorenporträt

Conor Lucey is Assistant Professor in the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a new apology for the builder 1 Building reputations: a
genteel life in trade 2 Designing houses: the façade and the architecture
of street and square 3 Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of
decoration 4 Building sales: advertising and the property market
Conclusion: the builder rehabilitated? Select Bibliography Index