The Gothic Revival

Name: The Gothic Revival
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ISBN: 9780500203590

ISBN-10: 0500203598

ISBN-13: 9780500203590

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael J. Lewis

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Lewis's rich survey treats individual buildings and broad movements in England, Europe and the USA with fresh authority. This is an invaluable introduction to one of the most colourful periods in the history of architecture.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 6/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.30" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction


Medieval Gothic architecture-Cathedrals of Christian Europe-Gothic Survival to 1700



Literature


Gothic Revival's beginnings in poetry and drama - gardens and `ruins' - Gothic Revival and 18th century politics - Walpole's Strawberry Hill - the Adam brothers, castellated houses



Romanticism


`The Sublime and the Beautiful' - Wyatt's Fonthill Abbey and cathedral restorations - scholarship: Carter, Britton, Milner - Gothic style and the church - Scottish baronial style - the United States



Nationalism


Germany in the 19th century: English gardens and ruins - Goethe, Forster, Schlegel and patriotic scholarship - Schinkel's Gothic phase - Cologne Cathedral - nationalism in Europe



Truth


Barry, Pugin and the English Houses of Parliament - Pugin's Contrasts and True Principles - The Ecclesiological Society: English church restoration - Gothic Revival in America - Germany, France and the exchange of ideas



Development


Copyism and evolution - Butterfield: colour, pattern and innovation - iron and glass: the Crystal Palace, Oxford Museum - Street and urban churches - Burges and the French style - Belgium and Bethune, the Netherlands and Cuypers - the Gothic architects of Germany



Iron


New materials for traditional structures - architecture and engineering - Viollet-le-Duc - railway stations: Scott - commercial buildings: Furness - civic buildings



Beauty


Scott's Albert Memorial - Morris and Webb - domestic Gothic: Godwin, Shaw and the Old English style - Richardson: the Romanesque Revival - France, England and the United States - neo-vernacular Gothic: Lethaby, Scott - liberation and experiment in the new century: Gaudi



Height


Collegiate Gothic - the Gothic skyscraper - Gothic Revival and the Bauhaus - the end of the Gothic Revival: modernists and postmodernists


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index