The Master Builder
William Butterfield and His Times
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2024
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-371-4 (ISBN)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-371-4 (ISBN)
The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times is both a comprehensive compendium of the works of one of the most important architects of the 19th century and a portrait of the age in which they appeared.
William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous and brilliant architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire Victorian era.
This book addresses the emergence of a modern society, with rapidly expanding new institutions and a changing moral code and explores how Butterfield responded to and advanced that transformation. It reflects the changing emphasis of Butterfield’s work: first, the revival, rebuilding and reform of the country parish; next the role of the church and the agents of social health in the burgeoning town and city; third, the revolution in secondary education and college life; and finally, sites of refuge, sanctuary, repose and remembrance. Drawing extensively on the literature of the time, each chapter discusses a societal shift and surveys Butterfield’s most important architectural contributions to this. Woven through the book are characterisations of the often colourful men and women who were Butterfield’s patrons and associates.
It not only provides in-depth analyses of seminal projects such as All Saint’s Margaret Street, Keble College, and Rugby School, along with lesser known, but equally influential works such as Exeter Grammar School, but it also shows how Butterfield through his wide range of work created whole new typologies of buildings – from hospitals and care homes, to seaside resorts, urban schools and working men’s colleges, to the Coleridge’s great country house in Devon and the village parsonages, cottages and schools in which the characteristics of the Arts and Craft movement first appeared.
William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous and brilliant architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire Victorian era.
This book addresses the emergence of a modern society, with rapidly expanding new institutions and a changing moral code and explores how Butterfield responded to and advanced that transformation. It reflects the changing emphasis of Butterfield’s work: first, the revival, rebuilding and reform of the country parish; next the role of the church and the agents of social health in the burgeoning town and city; third, the revolution in secondary education and college life; and finally, sites of refuge, sanctuary, repose and remembrance. Drawing extensively on the literature of the time, each chapter discusses a societal shift and surveys Butterfield’s most important architectural contributions to this. Woven through the book are characterisations of the often colourful men and women who were Butterfield’s patrons and associates.
It not only provides in-depth analyses of seminal projects such as All Saint’s Margaret Street, Keble College, and Rugby School, along with lesser known, but equally influential works such as Exeter Grammar School, but it also shows how Butterfield through his wide range of work created whole new typologies of buildings – from hospitals and care homes, to seaside resorts, urban schools and working men’s colleges, to the Coleridge’s great country house in Devon and the village parsonages, cottages and schools in which the characteristics of the Arts and Craft movement first appeared.
Nicholas Olsberg was Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and founding Head of Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute. He holds an honours degree in Modern History from Oxford University and a doctorate in Nineteenth Century History from the University of South Carolina. He has written books on the work of Herzog DeMeuron, Carlo Scarpa, John Lautner, Cliff May and Arthur Erickson and been a columnist for the Architectural Review and Building Design.
Prologue. 1. Past and Present. 2. Parochialia. 3. The heath, the Altar and the Grave. 4. Our Overgrown Towns. 5. The Way We Live Now. 6. Character Building. 7. Fellowship, Discipline, Duty. 8. Refuge, Refreshment, Repose. Bibliography. Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations; 270 Illustrations, color; 157 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 240 x 280 mm |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84822-371-4 / 1848223714 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84822-371-4 / 9781848223714 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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