The Bridges Of Robert Adam

Author : Benjamin Riley
Publisher : Triglyph Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1916355471

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The Bridges of Robert Adam: A Fanciful and Picturesque Tour by Benjamin Riley Pdf

The bridge has always stood as a transitional structure - not purely a work of engineering, nor simply a work of architecture. Its functional requirements are more stringent than those of the average building; it not only must stand up; it must stand up, support those who cross it, and effectively span the space over which it stands. As Samuel Johnson said, "the first excellence of a bridge is strength ... for a bridge that cannot stand, however beautiful, will boast its beauty but a little while." The Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-92) understood these precepts well, continually building bridges that were not just structurally sound, but also aesthetically pleasing. Unlike his contemporaries, Adam did not view bridges as mere skeletons upon which to apply ornament. Rather, he sought to achieve architectural totality, incorporating his bridge designs into greater architectural programs, thereby producing aesthetically pleasing and contextually specific designs. From the Pulteney Bridge in Bath to the ruined arch and viaduct at Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, The Bridges of Robert Adam: A Fanciful and Picturesque Tour will take the reader across Britain, shedding new light on an understudied aspect of the great architect's career.

Author : David King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135142483

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Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam by David King Pdf

This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.

Author : Ted Ruddock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351919272

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Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts by Ted Ruddock Pdf

For 2,000 years the most durable spanning structures have been built of masonry, and the surviving bridges of the Roman Empire have challenged master masons, architects and engineers to emulate and surpass them. Down the centuries, bridge-builders have been commissioned by monarchs, bishops, councils of state, cities, private individuals and, more recently, waterway and railway companies. The studies collected in this volume focus chiefly on the bridges, viaducts and aqueducts themselves and the actions of the designers and builders, but also encompass the political, economic and social contexts and outcomes of their creation. Famous bridges in Britain, Italy, France, Iran and the USA are all featured. Narratives of conception, design and construction predominate, but there are also papers on construction techniques, on the analysis of documentary sources, and on the continuing search by modern engineers for satisfactory scientific description of the strength and stability of arch bridges.

Author : John Sweetman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429801952

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The Artist and the Bridge by John Sweetman Pdf

First published in 1999, this book explores how, from the stone bridges of neoclassicism which soar out of wild woods to span pastoral valleys to the post-1750 engineer’s bridge with its links to the more industrial landscape, the bridge was a popular feature in painting throughout the period 1700-1920. Why did so many artists choose to portray bridges? In this lavishly illustrated and intriguing book, John Sweetman seeks to answer this question. He traces the history of the bridge in painting and printmaking through a vast range of work, some as familiar as William Etty’s The Bridge of Sighs and Claude Monet’s The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil and others less well known such as Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition IV and C.R.W. Nevinson’s Looking Through the Brooklyn Bridge. Distinctive characteristics emerge revealing the complex role of the bridge as both symbol and metaphor, and as a place of vantage, meeting and separation.

Author : Ted Ruddock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521218160

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Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735-1835 by Ted Ruddock Pdf

This book is a comprehensive history of bridge building during the century.

Author : A. W. Skempton
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 072772939X

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A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830 by A. W. Skempton Pdf

This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.

Author : Doreen Yarwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCAL:B4328308

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Robert Adam by Doreen Yarwood Pdf

Here two aspects of this man and his work are for the first time integrated fully in one volume.

Author : Ian Valentine
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495378

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Station 43 by Ian Valentine Pdf

Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at the stately home undertook a series of arduous training courses in guerilla warfare before being parachuted into occupied Europe. In 1943, Audley End was placed exclusively under polish control, a situation unique within SOE. The training was tough and the success rate low, but a total of 527 agents passed through Audley End between 1942 and 1944. Ian Valentine has consulted a wide range of primary sources and interviewed Polish instructors and former agents who trained at Audley End to write the definitive account of this Essex country house and the vital but secret part it played in defeating Hitler. He examines the comprehensive training agents at Audley End and describes the work undertaken by Station 43's agents in Europe, set against the background of Polish wartime history. He also covers the vital link with the RAF's Special Duties squadrons, whose crews risked their lives dropping agents into occupied Europe. Station 43 breaks new ground in telling the hitherto until story of Audley End house and its role as a vital SOE training school.

Author : Frances Sands
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781784914639

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Robert Adam’s London by Frances Sands Pdf

The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones.

Author : Ronald Yee
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785007958

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The Architecture of British Bridges by Ronald Yee Pdf

During the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront of bridge innovation. Pioneering designers such as George and Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel created Britain's rich bridge heritage that features many world firsts and we can learn much from their ground-breaking designs. Written by an experienced bridge architect, this book includes an introduction to bridge aesthetics; it gives an outline of British bridge development and advice on parapet treatment and bridge lighting. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how the best of British bridges marry aesthetic considerations with engineering ingenuity.

Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493024179

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A Cowboy of the Pecos by Patrick Dearen Pdf

In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as “the cowboy’s paradise.” And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as “the most expert cowboys in the world.” A Cowboy of the Pecos vividly reveals tells the story of the Pecos cowboy from the first Goodnight-Loving cattle drive to the 1920s. These meticulously researched and entertaining stories offer a glimpse into a forgotten and yet mythologized era. Includes archival photographs.

Author : Mike Dean
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750982009

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The Little Book of Bath by Mike Dean Pdf

Bath is one of the most visited cities in the world, and countless books have told the history of its beautiful buildings and parks. Yet the chances are that this fact-packed compendium will enhance your knowledge further. Find out all manner of things, from which planet was discovered from a back garden to which pub was visited by Charles Dickens. Full of surprises, this great little book is perfect for dipping into as well as reading cover to cover. Here is the Bath few people get to know!

Author : Humm Louisa Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474455299

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Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 by Humm Louisa Humm Pdf

This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town. Steps decisively away from the 'Scottish castle' genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland's first well-documented grouping of major architects - including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations a

Author : Richard Hayman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781784423858

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Bridges by Richard Hayman Pdf

From the monumental splendour of Tower Bridge and the august span at Westminster to the engineering masterpieces at Ironbridge and the Forth, bridges comprise some of the most recognisable landmarks in Britain. Whether the smallest arch or the largest overpass, each has a rich architectural, economic, social and sometimes even religious history. This beautifully illustrated introduction by Richard Hayman explains how piety built and maintained bridges in the Middle Ages; how economic forces inspired a new generation of road bridges in the eighteenth century, such as the Menai Bridge in North Wales, and how technological prowess gave us soaring Victorian railway viaducts and the concrete road bridges of the twentieth century.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Garrick, David
ISBN : 0719008581

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The Garrick Stage by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf