Everyman's Castle by Philippa Lewis
A short and gently humourous people's history of British domestic architecture, illustrated with quirky archive material.‘This remarkable book traces the whole story of domestic architecture in BritainThe author takes us from the primative huts at the time of the Domesday Book to Thirties suburbs. It paints the grandeur of great country houses, such as Houghton, and chronicles the development of urban squares and terraces. It escorts us unblinkingly into the shaming slums, in which those who toiled for our 19th-century wealth were compelled to live and die; and it ends in a glorious chapter, my own favourite, on bungalows’
"Unashamedly riddled with class from beginning to end (unavoidably, considering national aspirations and class mobility, both upwards and downwards), the joy is that Lewis has produced a stream of commentary culled from an astonishing range of literary references interwoven with hard facts. Liberally scattered with the rewards of wide-ranging picture research throughout, it’s a very handy-sized volume, the text a mere 250 pages."
'Absorbing for the urban geographer.'
‘This remarkable book traces the whole story of domestic architecture in Britain. The author takes us from the primative huts at the time of the Domesday Book to Thirties suburbs. It paints the grandeur of great country houses, such as Houghton, and chronicles the development of urban squares and terraces. It escorts us unblinkingly into the shaming slums, in which those who toiled for our 19th-century wealth were compelled to live and die; and it ends in a glorious chapter, my own favourite, on bungalows’
"Unashamedly riddled with class from beginning to end (unavoidably, considering national aspirations and class mobility, both upwards and downwards), the joy is that Lewis has produced a stream of commentary culled from an astonishing range of literary references interwoven with hard facts. Liberally scattered with the rewards of wide-ranging picture research throughout, it’s a very handy-sized volume, the text a mere 250 pages."
'A celebration of our nation’s properties'
'Philippa Lewis's lively, discursive survey of domestic buildings is a story of attitudes as much as architecture. She ranges widely not just within architectural literature but fiction, poetry, periodicals and plays too...with her breadth of reference and sprightly style she shows how the British psyche can be read through our buildings.'
'Admirably forthright.'
'At a time when well designed housing is in high demand and short supply, it's instructive to look to the past and see how the buildings that still underpin the nation's housing stock were shaped.'
‘An informative and entertaining look at the diversity of Britain’s architectural landscape.’
'Absorbing for the urban geographer.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780711233386 |
| ISBN 10 | 0711233381 |
| Title | Everyman's Castle |
| Author | Philippa Lewis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2014-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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