Graham Potts, Michael Johnson

The Architecture of Sunderland (eBook, ePUB)

1700-1914

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coal-mining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion. Once the largest shipbuilding town in the world, Sunderland has a proud and distinctive identity embodied in its historic buildings and its changing urban form. Sunderland Architecture examines the city's architectural history at the high point of its growth and prosperity. It explores churches, museums, libraries, banks, theatres and pubs, as well as more humble buildings in which people have lived and worked. Viewing these buildings in their historical context, the book explores the economic, social and cultural forces that shaped Sunderland. The text is illustrated with photographs taken especially for this volume, with archival documents and images to reconstruct vanishing townscapes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Phillimore & Co Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750953030
• Artikelnr.: 39482439

Autorenporträt

Dr. Michael Johnson is an architectural historian with a particular interest in North-East England. He worked as a lecturer at Northumbria University for six years, and currently teaches the History of Design at Sunderland University. He researched the architecture of Sunderland for the VCH, and his photographs appeared in Gill Cookson's Sunderland: Building a City (Phillimore, 2010). Michael plays an active role in the Sunderland Heritage Forum and the Sunderland Heritage Quarter. Graham Potts was, alongside Dr. Johnson, commissioned to research Sunderland's architectural heritage by the Durham Victoria County History. Their findings appear in this volume.