Shaping the surface : materiality and the history of British architecture, 1840-2000 /

Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a 'national mania for beautiful surface quality,' this book makes a new contributio...

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Main Author: Kite, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2022].
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505 0 |a 1. Reading the wall-surface: John Ruskin, William Butterfield, and George Edmund Street -- 2. 'Think first of the walls': Surfaces of Romance - Morris, Webb, and the Arts and Crafts Domestic Interior -- 3. Smooth and Rough: George Frederick Bodley and Edward Schröder Prior -- 4. Carving the Surface: Edwardian and Inter-War Architecture and Sculpture -- 5. Surfaces and Sharawaggi: Aspects of the Picturesque c 1925-55 -- 6. As Found: Surfaces of Brutalism -- 7. Pattern, Abstraction, Post-Modernism: Lubetkin - Pasmore - Stirling -- 8. High-Tech, Neo-Vernacular, New Materiality: Richard Rogers - Ralph Erskine - Caruso St John. 
520 |a Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a 'national mania for beautiful surface quality,' this book makes a new contribution to architectural history and visual culture in its detailed examination of the surfaces of British architecture from the middle of the 19th century up to the turn of the 21st century. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface all the way through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements from Romanticism and the Arts and Crafts, to Brutalism, High-Tech, Post-Modernism, Neo-Vernacular and the New Materiality. Embedded within the narrative is the question of whether such national characters can exist in architecture at all and indeed the extent to which it is possible to identify a British architectural consciousness in an architectural tradition characterized by its continuous importation of theories, ideas, materials and people from around the globe. Shaping the Surface provides a deep critique and meditation on the importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers and historians everywhere, in Britain and beyond, while it also serves as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history, with in-depth readings of the works of many key British architects, artists and critics from Ruskin and William Morris to Alison and Peter Smithson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Rogers and Caruso St John. 
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