The hero building : an architecture of Scottish national identity /

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rodger, John, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015.
Colección:Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
Temas:
Heroes > Monuments > Scotland.
Nationalism and architecture > Scotland.
Héros > Monuments > Écosse.
Nationalisme et architecture > Écosse.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Nationalism and architecture
Scotland
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Hero Building
  • Prototype : Hume and Glenfinnan Monuments
  • Romantic Poet
  • Enlightenment Poet : Early Burns Monuments
  • Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West : Calton Hill in Edinburgh
  • Wizard of the North : The Scott Monument
  • Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument
  • National Poet
  • Poet of Humanity : Late Burns Monuments
  • Aberration, Autism and Vanity : Hamilton Mausoleum and the McCaig Tower
  • The Fallen : The Scottish National War Memorial
  • A Post Modern Proof : Glasgow Developments
  • Afterlife.

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