Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin : Constructing Authority - Brian  Hanson

Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin

Constructing Authority

By: Brian Hanson

Hardcover | 27 November 2003

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This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root. Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish new, and often surprising relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott and Street - and to shed new light on lesser figures, and on agencies as diverse as freemasonry and magazine publishing. John Ruskin in particular emerges here in an entirely new light, as do his arguments concerning 'The Nature of Gothic'. Following recent rethinking of the pace of industrialisation, and the dynamic between the metropolitan centres and the more slowly evolving 'fringes', Hanson concludes that in some respects Ruskin was closer to William Chambers than to William Morris.
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