This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. -- .
"Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies" is the annual journal of the Irish Georgian Society. It is the much-enhanced and dramatically expanded successor to the Bulletin, which was published from 1958 to 1997. The journal reflects the Irish Georgian Society’s present wider remit, which is no longer concerned solely with Georgian architecture, but acknowledges the importance of the entire spectrum of Ireland’s post-medieval architecture and its special need for protection, interpretation, understanding and appreciation. The content of each volume of the journal is wide and varied, testimony to the diversity and scholarship of the series.
With volume one winning first place the Listowel Writer’s Week Nilsson Local Heritage Award, this is the second of a three-volume series on Dublin Castle and the archaeological excavations carried out there between 1961 and 1987.
Documents the building of New York's landmark bridge and the extraordinary family behind this legendary feat of engineering. This book presents the design, step-by-step construction, multiple setbacks and ultimate completion of the bridge, supported by diagrams and dramatic illustrations. It is illustrated with detailed colour artwork.
For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....
Rick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the early 70s. This book establishes Rick Mather's approach to resolving complex design issues, and also describes the work of the practice. Covering a range of the projects, it also explores Mather's response to the technical and social requirements of the briefs.