National Trust Books - Architectural Britain
From the Saxon Period to the Present Day - By Hubert
Pragnell
August 2007 - £14.99 - Paperback - Colour photography
throughout
Architectural Britain presents a broad outline of the
development of architectural styles and movements in
Britain. Designed to encourage readers to explore, it
provides the context needed to understand the place of a
building in architectural history, with the author's own
drawings and atmospheric photographs from the National
Trust illustrating important examples. Both a pocket
guide and a compact history in very accessible language,
this book will enable anyone interested in Britain's
built heritage to see it with new and more knowledgeable
eyes.
The book covers the following styles:
Norman Style * Transition to Gothic * Gothic Cathedral *
Medieval Parish Church * Castle and Medieval Manor House
* The Medieval House * Tudor Architecture * The Jacobean
House * Inigo Jones * Seventeenth-Century Mannerism *
Sir Christopher Wren * Baroque Style * Palladian
Movement * Advent of Town Planning * New Styles and New
Materials * Gothic Survival and Revival * Victorian
Gothic * From the Forth Bridge to the Millennium Dome *
The early twenty-first century
About the Author
Hubert Pragnell studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College
and the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford. He taught
art at the Kings School, Canterbury. He is the author of
Industrial Britain (Batsford) and a number of other
works on architecture. He lives in Canterbury, Kent.
Email:
lbrudenell@anovabooks.com
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