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Spirit of the age / [by] Alec Clifton-Taylor ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975.Description: 240 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, plans, ports. (some col.) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0563128976 :
  • 9780563128977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.941 CLI 23 12821
LOC classification:
  • NA961 .S65 1975
Contents:
Clifton-Taylor, A. The Medieval world.--Strong, R. A new heaven, a new earth.--Jordan, R. F. The cult of grandeur.--Norwich, J. J. A sense of proportion.--Summerson, J. Landscape with buildings.--Girouard, M. All that money could buy.--Nuttgens, P. A full life and an honest place.--Casson, H. Dreams and awakenings.
Summary: Originally published in 1975 to accompany the television series of the same name, this book examines Britain's buildings from various periods of history. It gives the architecture a social and intellectual context as well as relating what was built to economic, political and aesthetic ideas.
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An expanded version of the BBC television series Spirit of the age.

Includes index.

Clifton-Taylor, A. The Medieval world.--Strong, R. A new heaven, a new earth.--Jordan, R. F. The cult of grandeur.--Norwich, J. J. A sense of proportion.--Summerson, J. Landscape with buildings.--Girouard, M. All that money could buy.--Nuttgens, P. A full life and an honest place.--Casson, H. Dreams and awakenings.

Originally published in 1975 to accompany the television series of the same name, this book examines Britain's buildings from various periods of history. It gives the architecture a social and intellectual context as well as relating what was built to economic, political and aesthetic ideas.

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