Sir Herbert Baker

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644438
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Herbert Baker written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the leading architect to the British Empire. From London, through the commemoration of the empire's war dead in France, via South Africa and Australia to India, he celebrated the might of an empire that once ruled a quarter of the world. He was an intimate friend of many of most fascinating men of his age, including Cecil Rhodes, Lawrence of Arabia, John Buchan, Jan Smuts and, of course, his fellow architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. After a Victorian architectural apprenticeship in London and on to becoming the most prolific architect of his age in South Africa, he built the new imperial capital of New Delhi in India with Lutyens, before returning to London. These built or rebuilt such landmark buildings as the Bank of England, South Africa House, India House, Rhodes House, and the stands for Lords Cricket Ground, as well as numerous churches and private houses.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476684340
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Herbert Baker written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the leading architect to the British Empire. From London, through the commemoration of the empire's war dead in France, via South Africa and Australia to India, he celebrated the might of an empire that once ruled a quarter of the world. He was an intimate friend of many of most fascinating men of his age, including Cecil Rhodes, Lawrence of Arabia, John Buchan, Jan Smuts and, of course, his fellow architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. After a Victorian architectural apprenticeship in London and on to becoming the most prolific architect of his age in South Africa, he built the new imperial capital of New Delhi in India with Lutyens, before returning to London. These built or rebuilt such landmark buildings as the Bank of England, South Africa House, India House, Rhodes House, and the stands for Lords Cricket Ground, as well as numerous churches and private houses.

Author : Sir Herbert Baker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture & Personalities written by Sir Herbert Baker and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Keath
Publisher : Ashanti Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert Baker written by Michael Keath and published by Ashanti Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Architectural Association (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Architects written by Architectural Association (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Temple
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351693859
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture written by Nicholas Temple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the impact of colonialism, trade, slavery, religious missions, political ideology and intellectual/artistic exchange, the authors demonstrate how classical principles and ideas were disseminated and received across the globe. By addressing a number of contentious or unresolved issues highlighted in some historical surveys of architecture, the chapters presented in this volume question long-held assumptions about the notion of a universally accepted ‘classical tradition’ and its broadly Euro-centric perspective. Featuring thirty-two chapters written by international scholars from China, Europe, Turkey, North America, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, the book is divided into four sections: 1) Transmission and re-conceptualisation of classical architecture; 2) Classical influence through colonialism, political ideology and religious conversion; 3) Historiographical surveys of geographical regions; and 4) Visual and textual discourses. This fourfold arrangement of chapters provides a coherent structure to accommodate different perspectives of classical reception across the world, and their geographical, ethnographic, ideological, symbolic, social and cultural contexts. Essays cover a wide geography and include studies in Italy, France, England, Scotland, the Nordic countries, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Germany, Poland, India, Singapore, China, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. Other essays in the volume focus on thematic issues or topics pertaining to classical architecture, such as ornament, spolia, humanism, nature, moderation, decorum, heresy and taste. An essential reference guide, The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture makes a major contribution to the study of architectural history in a new global context.

Author : Robert Grant Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300031287
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Summer written by Robert Grant Irving and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grant Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110710081X
Total Pages : 579 pages
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Download or read book South Africa, Greece, Rome written by Grant Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

Author : Doreen E. Greig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780360001039
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert Baker in South Africa written by Doreen E. Greig and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeroen Geurst
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064507155
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens written by Jeroen Geurst and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) designed 140 cemeteries in the countryside of Flanders and Northern France for soldiers killed in the First World War. The cemeteries can be regarded as an imprint, as it were, of the former battlefront on the map of Europe. All are designed to principles established beforehand, including uniform gravestones, a large Stone of Remembrance and a large cross. Yet the difference in size, alignment and provenance make them all unique variations on the themes in question. The most memorable aspects are their meticulously chosen position in the landscape, the varied selection of trees and other greenery and the architecture of the entrance and shelter buildings. This illustrated book charts the history of the designs and exposes the underlying principle of order and variation in the architecture in an exhaustive landscape-architectural analysis. All 140 cemeteries are fully documented with references to the places where they are to be found.