Vitruvius Scoticus

Author : William Adam
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486321110

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Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam Pdf

This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century. It was assembled by William Adam (1689–1748), whose sons were the developers of the "Adam style," and published posthumously in 1812. The elder Adam designed, extended, and remodeled numerous country homes and undertook many public contracts. Vitruvius Scoticus's 160 plates include 100 of his own designs. Unlike the Vitruvius Britannicus books, this volume features plans for many smaller buildings that served as models for American builders and architects of the nineteenth century. Its engravings include images of such stately homes as Mavisbank House, Haddo House, and Fasque House; Hamilton Palace, one of the nation's grandest homes, and Holyrood Palace, the official residence of the monarch in Scotland; and a series of bridges at Inveraray in the county of Argyll. Never before available in an affordable edition, this volume is an essential reference for architectural historians and students. It includes an Introduction and Notes to the Plates by James Simpson.

Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980108

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History of Architectural Theory by Hanno-Walter Kruft Pdf

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Author : A. W. Skempton
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : William Adam,James Simpson
Publisher : Ams PressInc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0404181368

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Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam,James Simpson Pdf

Author : Antti Matikkala
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843834236

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The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760 by Antti Matikkala Pdf

`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation (1687) and the revival (1703-4) of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath (1725). It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.

Author : Humm Louisa Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474455282

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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 : William Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:636028990

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Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam Pdf

Author : William Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1780*
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:7725721

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Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam Pdf

Author : John Gifford
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015019565764

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William Adam, 1689-1748 by John Gifford Pdf

Author : William Adam,James Simpson,Richard Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:233906915

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Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam,James Simpson,Richard Cooper Pdf

Author : Stephen W Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748650958

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Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2 by Stephen W Brown Pdf

The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.

Author : Stephen W. Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628964

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Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 by Stephen W. Brown Pdf

Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.

Author : Marco Formisano,Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198818489

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Marginality, Canonicity, Passion by Marco Formisano,Christina Shuttleworth Kraus Pdf

In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical study themselves. One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies, examining the ways in which classical literature and culture have been appropriated or responded to in later ages and/or non-western cultures. This temporal and cultural expansion beyond the 'traditional' remit of the field has had many salutary effects, but reception studies are not without limitations: of particular consequence is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the most canonical Greek and Latin texts which is partly due to the sheer scale on which they have been received, adapted, discussed, and alluded to since antiquity. By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which have had no 'success', but the result of an implicit adoption of canonicity as an unspoken criterion is the marginalization of other texts which, despite their inherent value, have not experienced so significant a Nachleben. This volume seeks to move beyond the questions of what is central, what is marginal, and why, to explore instead the range and significance of the classical canon and the processes by which it is shaped and changed by its reception in different academic and cultural environments. By examining the academic study of Classics from the interrelated titular perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, it aims to unveil their many subtle implications and reopen a discussion not only about what makes the discipline unique, but also about what direction it might take in the future.

Author : Royal Institute of British Architects. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015034634249

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Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects ... by Royal Institute of British Architects. Library Pdf

Author : Miles Glendinning,Aonghus MacKechnie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474283489

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Scotch Baronial by Miles Glendinning,Aonghus MacKechnie Pdf

As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland's politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring how the architecture of Scotland – in particular the constantly-changing ideal of the 'castle' – has been of great consequence to the ongoing narrative of Scottish national identity. Scotch Baronial provides a politically-framed examination of Scotland's kaleidoscopic 'castle architecture', tracing how it was used to serve successive political agendas both prior to and during the three 'unionist centuries' from the early 17th century to the 20th century. The book encompasses many of the country's most important historic buildings – from the palaces left behind by the 'lost' monarchy, to revivalist castles and the proud town halls of the Victorian age – examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations. It ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary 'neo-modernist' architecture in today's Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture over the previous centuries.