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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kite, Stephen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2022].
Subjects:	Texture in architecture > Great Britain. Architecture > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Architecture > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

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.