Design Culture In Liverpool 1888 1914

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By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aesthetics emerged a unique synthesis that was to exert a profound international influence in architectural and planning design.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Christopher Crouch
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release : 1999-04-01
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781846312946


Design Culture In Liverpool 1880 1914

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By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aesthetics emerged a unique synthesis that was to exert a profound international influence in architectural and planning design.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Christopher Crouch
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release : 2002-01-01
File : 230 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0853238944


The Victorian Art School

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The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferation through the major industrial centres of Britain. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, together with earlier examples in Manchester and Birmingham demonstrate an unprecedented concern for the provision of plentiful light and air amidst the pollution of the Victorian city. As theories of design education and local governance converged, they also reveal the struggle of the provincial city for cultural independence from the capital. Examining innovations in the use of new technologies and approaches in the design of these buildings, The Victorian Art School offers a unique and explicitly environmental reading of the Victorian city. It examines how art schools complemented civic ‘Improvement’ programmes, their contribution to the evolution of art pedagogy, the tensions that arose between the provincial schools and the capital, and the role they would play in reimagining the relationship between art and public life in a rapidly transforming society. The architects of these buildings synthesised the potential of art with the perfection of the internal environment, indelibly shaping the future cultural life of Britain.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Ranald Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2020-09-02
File : 187 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000169607


Museum Architecture

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Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and the problems of architectural history when applied to the museum and gallery. Starting from a discussion of the key issues in contemporary museum design, the book explores the role of architectural history in the prioritisation of specific stories of museum building and museum architects and the exclusion of other actors from the history of museum making. These omissions have contemporary relevance and impact directly on the ways in which the physical structures of museums are shaped. Theoretically, the book places a particular emphasis on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Henri Lefebvre in order to establish an understanding of buildings as social relations; the outcome of complex human interactions and relationships. The book utilises a micro history, an in-depth case study of the ‘National Gallery of the North’, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to expose the myriad ways in which museum architecture is made. Coupled with this detailed exploration is an emphasis on contemporary museum design which utilises the understanding of the social realities of museum making to explore ideas for a socially sustainable museum architecture fit for the twenty-first century.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Suzanne MacLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-04-12
File : 327 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134053629


Networks Of Influence And Power

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During the nineteenth century Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and their integration within an increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings together ten original contributions that reflect upon the development of the city's business community from the early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the first detailed analysis of Liverpool's merchant community within a conceptual and historiographical framework which focuses on the economic, social and cultural role of business elites in the nineteenth century. It explores the extent to which business success was predicated on the maintenance of networks of trust; analyses the importance of business culture in structuring commercial operations; and discusses the role of ethics, trust and reputation within the changing framework of the business environment. Particular attention is paid to the role of women and the important contribution of the family to commercial success and the maintenance of social networks. Changes in business practice and social networks are also examined within a spatial context in order to assess the impact of the development of a distinct commercial centre and the clustering of commercial activity on interaction, reputation and trust, while particular attention is paid to the effect of suburbanization on existing associational networks, the social cohesiveness of business culture, and the cultural identity of the merchant community as a whole.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2023-12-01
File : 714 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317088837


The Transactions Of The Royal Institute Of British Architects Town Planning Conference London 10 15 October 1910

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Originally published: London: Royal institute of British architects, 1911.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2011
File : 889 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780415677394


The Transactions Of The Royal Institute Of British Architects Town Planning Conference London 10 15 October 1910

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In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the first ever international conference on Town Planning. The Transactions of this critical event in the development of planning as a profession and as a discipline were published a year later in 1911. Long out of print and very difficult to obtain, this new facsimile edition of the Transactions of the 1910 Conference now makes available – for planners and historians alike – this valuable primary resource.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Riba
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-08-21
File : 889 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136668562


Marketing Modernisms

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Architect, teacher, journalist, town planner and cultural entrepreneur, Sir Charles Reilly (1874–1948) was a leading figure of the early twentieth-century British architectural scene. Marketing Modernisms is the first book to take an in-depth look at Reilly’s career, tracing his evolving architectural ethos via a series of case studies of his built work. Among other issues, the author considers Reilly’s involvement in cultural enterprises such as the establishment of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, his journalism, transatlantic links and town-planning theories. Reilly has been largely overlooked by writers of Modernist histories, but this book restores him to deserved prominence

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Peter Richmond
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release : 2001-05-01
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781846313516


Doves And Dreams

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A ground-breaking study that discusses, for the first time, the lives and careers of Frances Macdonald (1874-1921) and J. Herbert McNair (1868-1955), two important artists who have hitherto been considered as adjuncts to Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret Macdonald.

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Genre : Art
Author : Frances Macdonald
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Release : 2006
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105127438328


Forthcoming Books

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Genre : American literature
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Release : 2002-02
File : 1372 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015046424373