Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing Authority

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This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the "building world" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root. Bringing to architectural history methods more familiar from studies of the social content of poetry and painting, Brian Hanson is able to establish new, and often surprising, relationships between many of the key figures of the period - including Chambers, Soane, Barry, Pugin, Scott, and Street - and to shed new light on lesser figures, and on agencies a diverse as freemasonry and magazine publishing. John Ruskin in particular emerges here in an entirely new light, as do his arguments concerning "The Nature of Gothic." Hanson concludes that in some respects Ruskin was closer to William Chambers than to William Morris.

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Review of the hardback: '... the scholarship is impressive ...' Architecture Today

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ISBN-13: 9780521811866
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2003
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 1.10 (d)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	"The Shadow of Their Wings": The Architect among Builders	22
	John Gwynn	22
	William Chambers	25
	The Example of Chambers	34
	"The Poetry of Architecture": The Architect above Builders	37
	Joseph Gwilt	37
	John Soane	40
	The Example of Soane	54
	"Mystery and Craft Are By": The Poet's Descent	59
	A Language of Men	59
	The Pictorial Art	63
	"He Never Condescended": Coming to Terms with New Disciplines	70
	Charles Barry	70
	Pugin	80
	A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists	86
	"Conjunctive All": The Sharing of Knowledge in Building	93
	John Britton	93
	The Artizan	97
	"Orthodoxy of Practice" The Builder and a New Freemasonry	103
	Josiah Hansom and The Builder	103
	Alfred Bartholomew, The Builder, and the Freemasons of the Church	110
	Bartholomew's College	116
	Godwin's Builder	122
	Ruskin's Changing Prospect	129
	Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon	129
	The Poetry of Architecture	135
	Modern Painters I and II	144
	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	152
	Ruskin's Descent	164
	Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle	164
	The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett	168
	Ruskin in 1854 and 1855	180
	Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelites	184
	Incarnation	192
	Ruskin, G. G. Scott, and the Architectural Museum	192
	Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum	201
	Deane and Woodward	210
	Pre-Raphaelite Painters and Sculptors and the Oxford Museum	220
	Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s	229
	John Pollard Seddon and the Puginian Reading of Ruskin	229
	G. E. Street: Father of the Arts and Crafts	233
	E. W. Godwin - The "Art-Architect"	238
	The Architectural Museum in the Late 1850s	240
	The Failure of the Oxford Museum	246
	Ruskin's Lectures to Architects	251
	Conclusion	259
	Notes	265
	Bibliography	337
	Index	361

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