Robert Willis, John Willis Clark

Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge

St Johns College

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The complete text of Willis' Architectural History of the University of Cambridge relating specifically to St John's College.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780521147156
• ISBN-10: 0521147158
• Artikelnr.: 26867766

Autorenporträt

Born in Bagdad, Florida, in 1927, Robert Willis served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. The conflict fired his desire for learning, and after the war ended, he attended Florida Southern College, the University of Texas, and capping it off with a PhD from Florida State University. Careers in higher education and, later, real estate followed. Willis has pursued writing with earnest passion since the 1960s. A fan of serious fiction, sometimes with comic overtones, he admires writers like Twain, Hemingway, even the classical bards like Shakespeare and Homer. The list goes on....

Inhaltsangabe

1. History of the site: history and description of the first buildings
2. History of the second court
3. History of the library and of the third and fourth courts
4. History of the old Chapel and of the building adjoining it on the north
5. History of particular buildings: hall, combination room, master's lodge, treasury, alterations to the courts, the gardens and walks
6. History of the new chapel
Chronological summary
Appendix.