Code: 04783592

Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time

Name: Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 04783592
Price: 209.62 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Anne Bordeleau

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 226
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014
More about this

209.62 €

Availability:

50/50

We think title might be available. Upon your order we will do our best to get it within 6 weeks.
We search the world

Availability alert

Add to wishlist

Cottages and Villas
68.81 € -9 %
Buy
Dirty Feet and Hungry Hearts
24.16 € -4 %
Buy
Oxford Reading Tree: Level 3 More A Decode and Develop Bug Hunt
7.36 € -13 %
Pre-order
Changing World of Gay Men
70.86 €
Buy
Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth
217.81 €
Buy
Cuarto Diferencias (version for Accordion Solo)
39.83 €
Buy
L'homme De L'ombre
12.59 €
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

Availability alert

We will watch availability for you

Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.

More about Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time

Book details
Synopsis
Trending among others

You get 518 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides and how), or fundamentally, how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories.Six drawings provide the foundation of an itinerary through Charles Robert Cockerell's conception of architecture, and into the depths of drawings and buildings. Born in England in 1788, Cockerell sketched as a Grand Tourist, he charted architectural history as Royal Academy Professor, he drew to build, to exhibit, to understand the past and to learn from it, publishing his last work in 1860, three years before his death. Under our scrutiny, his drawings become thresholds into the nineteenth century, windows into the architect's conception of architecture and time, complex documents of past and projected constructions, great examples that reveal a kinetic approach to ornamentation, and the depth of architectural representation.