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Carregando... London 1: The City of Londonde Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. - shelf 44 - with Pevsners A vast and comprehensive tour of the City of London's streets and buildings. Despite claims of having reduced the amount of space dedicated to church furnishings, there is still a disproportionate amount of inventory text. The only other criticism that could be levelled is that the architecture is considered almost exclusively from a geometric and aesthetic point of view, without any exploration of how buildings are actually used - in some ways this is a surface view of architecture, rather than a more holistic analysis of the use and ergonomics of buildings. However, this is a quibble which would take the book into a very different approach, and should not detract from what it is, which is a superb reference work for anyone interested in the buildings (and architectural history) of the streets of the City. Note: not exactly a page-turner, but still interesting enough to read cover-to-cover. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Pevsner dedicated his original volume, on the Cities of London & Westminster, to the nights spent fire watching from Birkbeck College. Simon Bradley's revised volume, on the City alone, examines in detail the legacy of destruction and the subsequent reconstructions, in the aftermath of the War and in more recent memory, during the boom period from 1985-1993, when half of the City office space was rebuilt. Reconstruction on such a scale can only be compared with the rebuilding after the Great Fire when the City churches were designed by Sir Christopher Wren. His ingenuity is displayed in his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral; one amongst the many buildings which make up the City's rich architectural heritage. The guide describes a city both ancient and modern, ranging from Georgian masterpieces by Soane and Hawksmoor to lavish Victorian market buildings, from the iconoclastic Lloyd's building to the lesser known Livery Halls of the City Guilds. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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