Eighteenth architecture

Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa by: G. E. Pearse A third edition hardcover published by A A Balkema in 1968 Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, foxing to front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete but with 4cm piece missing from top right rear cover Postage within South Africa R100.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation abe #

Author - G.E. Pearse Binding - Blue cloth covered boards Book Condition - Very good Book Number - QB-010363 Edition - Third edition Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1968 Published Place - Cape Town Publisher - AA Balkema Size - folio    A very good copy of the third edition of this important work on the subject. Filled with numerous illustrations and photographs. Previous owner's name to the paste down.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialisation (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence. Features Summary Peter Guillery discusses what we can learn from the modest and largely forgotten London houses built in the 18th century for artisans and labourers. In so doing he examines the effects of creeping industrialisation and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth.. Author Peter Guillery Publisher Yale University Press Release date 20040504 Pages 360 ISBN 0-300-10238-0 ISBN 13 978-0-300-10238-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was inevitably the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book-the fourth volume in the "MoMA Design Series," featuring works in the Museum's extraordinary design collection-explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century to the Millennium Dome and beyond. In its more than 200-year scope, "British Design" explores a variety of design products and movements, such as Wedgwood pottery, the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes of World War II, the Mini car and Dyson vacuum cleaner, the "Cool Britannia" cultural explosion in the late 1990s and British designers' take on the digital devices that define entertainment and communication in the early twenty-first century. An introduction by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, provides an overview of design culture in Britain; an essay and timeline by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, former design critic for "The New Statesman" and author of "The Most Beautiful Molecule" and "New American," illuminate the masterpieces of modern British design superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section. Features Summary Text by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Introduction by Paola Antonelli. Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams Publisher Museum of Modern Art Release date 20100501 Pages 143 ISBN 0-87070-781-7 ISBN 13 978-0-87070-781-0