Daniel Maudlin

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking study of the late Georgian phenomenon of the 'architect-designed cottage', this study of small buildings built on country estates and small-looking buildings built in picturesque rural settings, resorts towns and suburban developments explores the discourse that articulated this architectural phenomenon. At the heart of the English idea of the cottage is a Classical idea about retreat from the city to the countryside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317643142
• Artikelnr.: 43437029

Autorenporträt

Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth. He has previously held positions at Plymouth School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Dalhousie University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Glasgow. From farmhouses in Nova Scotia to aristocratic retreats on English country estates, his work focuses on the social meanings of design and the consumption of domestic architecture in the early modern British Atlantic world. He also writes on architectural theory, modern vernaculars and the everyday.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Cottage, Rural Retreat and the Simple Life 2. The Cottage in English
Architecture 3. The Architect-Designed Cottage 4. The Cottage in Arcadia 5.
Architects, Patrons and Connoisseurs 6. Habitations of the Labourer 7. The
Appreciation of Cottages 8. Re-Imagining the Vernacular 9. The Cottage
Ornée 10. The Cottages of Old England