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Experiencing architecture in the nineteenth century : buildings and society in the modern age /
Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user - rather than...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century; Architecture and users in the nineteenth century; Our plan of work; Part 1: Defining experience; Chapter 1: Architecture and experience: Regimes of materiality in the nineteenth century; Part 2: Producing experience; Chapter 2: Touching heaven, crafting utopia: David Parr House in Cambridge; The Parrs in Gwydir Street; Morris, Leach and Parr; Art of beauty, labour of love; Domesticity and identity.
- Chapter 3: Architecture of the mind: Imparting Californian identity through architectural experience on the early Stanford University campusThe art museum at the heart of the university; Memorial Church: Moulding the spirit through art; The partial destruction of the campus and its legacy in American design; Chapter 4: The architecture of art education: Provincial art schools in Britain, 1850-1914; Chapter 5: Rooms and galleries: Spaces of art in the nineteenth century; The experience of the museum; The experience of the private collection.
- Commercial spaces: Bridging the divide between public and privateConclusion; Part 3: Designing experience; Chapter 6: New York's Harvard House and the origins of an alumni culture in America; Towards a clubhouse; Harvard House; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Architectural acoustics: Thomas Roger Smith and the science of hearing buildings in nineteenth-century Britain; The problem of acoustics in Victorian public buildings; Thomas Roger Smith and the emergence of architectural acoustics in Britain; Sabine versus Smith: Algorithmic and experiential sciences of architectural acoustics; Conclusion.
- Chapter 8: Powers of politics, scientific measurement and perception: Evaluating the performance of the Houses of Commons' first environmental system, 1852-4Origins and evolution: From scientific research to occupant-responsive systems; The feedback mechanism: Accounting for the measured and perceived; Deepening insights: Independent re-examinations; The power of perception; Part 4: Audiences and experience; Chapter 9: Publicity and exclusivity: The experience of the public rooms of the London 'grand hotel' at the end of the nineteenth century.
- 'The pressing public want of the age': The arrival of the grand hotel'Bitter competition in the London hotel world': The problem of publicity; 'A wealthy man's private mansion': The assurance of exclusivity; The 'spirit of the time': Cosmopolitanism and heterosociability; Conclusion; Chapter 10: 'The fullest fountain of advancing civilization': Experiencing Anthony Trollope's House of Commons, 1852-82; Experiences of Parliament; Progressive architecture; A political theatre; Conclusion: Reading experiences.