Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin

Constructing Authority

By: Brian Hanson

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Paperback | 15 September 2011

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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 there. Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish often surprising relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott and Street - shedding light also on lesser figures, and on agencies as diverse as Freemasonry and magazine publishing. John Ruskin in particular emerges here in a different light, as do his arguments concerning 'The Nature of Gothic'. In line with rethinking of the pace of industrialization, 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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Introduction

'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders
John Gwynn
William Chambers
The example of Chambers
'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders
Joseph Gwilt
John Soane
The example of Soane

'Mystery and Craft are Gone By': The Poet's Descent
A language of men
The pictorial art
'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines
Charles Barry
Pugin
A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists

'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building
John Britton
The Artizan

Josiah Hansom and The Builder
Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church
Bartholemew's College
Godwin's Builder

Ruskin's Changing Prospect
Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon
The poetry of architecture
Modern Painters I and II
The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Ruskin's Descent
Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle
The Stones of Venice
Ruskin in 1854 and 1855
Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites

Incarnation
Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum
Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum
Deane and Woodward
Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum

Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s
John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin
G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts
E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'
The architectural museum in the late 1850s
The failure of the Oxford Museum
Ruskin's lectures to architects
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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