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Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007439881
A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Author : Matthew Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134343256
This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state. Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential disasters to show approaches to the modern concept of structure. By demonstrating the historical context of engineering, Wells has created a guide to design like no other, inspirational for both students and practitioners working in the fields of architecture and engineering.
Author : Robert Lee
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781835537336
When it was officially opened on Easter Monday, 5th April 1847, Birkenhead park became the first municipally funded park in Britain. It was a pioneer in the development of urban public parks, designed for use by everyone, irrespective of social class, ethnicity or age. In terms of town planning, it demonstrated the importance of including green infrastructure in urban development as a vital contribution to public health and wellbeing. Paxton’s design for the park was heralded as ‘a masterpiece of human creative genius’ : it served as a vehicle for the global transmission of the English landscape school and led to the creation of numerous public parks everywhere, most famously Central Park, New York, incorporating of many of Paxton’s design features. This book addresses a long-standing gap in the Park’s historiography. Regarded as ‘one of the greatest wonders of the age’, it is an important contribution to nineteenth-century landscape history with a local focus, but of international significance. But it seeks to interpret the Park’s development until 1914 within a political and cultural context, drawing on economic and social history, as a means of explaining why it was not until the late-nineteenth century that it finally became a focal point for recreation and public health.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1628 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015062055200
Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567923011
"Today one would be hard pressed to choose a "Pre-eminent Victorian," a perfect embodiment of the golden age of innovation and energy. But among the Victorians themselves, it was agreed that one figure towered above the rest. Joseph Paxton bestrode the worlds of horticulture, urban planning, and architecture like a colossus. This was the indispensable man, the self-taught polymath with a solution to every large-scale logistical problem. Rising quickly from humble beginnings, Paxton at 23 became head gardener and architect at Chatsworth, the estate of the sixth Duke of Devonshire. Under Paxton's hands, Chatsworth was transformed into the greatest garden in England, Britain's answer to the hanging gardens of Babylon. Paxton also edited garden periodicals, helped found the London Daily News, and was a Liberal MP for Coventry, but it was his design for the Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition of 1851, that secured his immortality"--
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2492 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066099238
Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781408835296
In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food a year - that's a third of all the food we buy, and a fifth of our total domestic waste. And about half of it could be eaten. Kate Colquhoun shows how to make your food go much, much further than you thought possible. On her mission to use up leftovers, wrinkly fruit and past-it veg, she includes modern, tasty recipes for: Bakes Casseroles Chutneys Crumbles Curries Fishcakes Gratins Marinades Meatballs Milkshakes Pies Soups Stews Stir-fries And more!
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0860917851
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author : Mary Gribbin,John Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Botanists
ISBN : 9780192807182
Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - Richard Spruce - Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408834084
From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.
Author : Sigfried Giedion
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892363193
With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.
Author : Heather Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107194212
In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used textual means to shape their own identities, the book argues that blindness was also a significant trope through which writers reflected on the act of crafting literary form. Supported by an illuminating range of archival material (including unpublished letters from Wordsworth's circle, early ophthalmologic texts, embossed books, and autobiographies) this is a rich account of blind people's experience, and reveals the close, and often surprising personal engagement that canonical writers had with visual impairment. Drawing on the insights of disability studies and cultural phenomenology, Tilley highlights the importance of attending to embodied experience in the production and consumption of texts.
Author : Kate Colquhoun
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1468311190
Kate Colquhoun, author of Murder in the First-Class Carriage, follows up with the sensational murder trial that captivated Victorian Society.
Author : George Francis Train
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1902-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465521057
Author : John McKean,Sir Joseph Paxton,Sir Charles Fox
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714829250
This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
