文档介绍：Built from Below:
British Architecture and
the Vernacular
This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its tradi-
tional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other
buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war
mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is
of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.
Increasingly, studies of what is genuinely vernacular in British archi-
tecture look beyond a distinct category of objects or techniques. Even the greatest
architecture can be better understood through heightened awareness of local or
indigenous forces, by emphasising use and underlying shifts in architecture’s social
meaning, and by understanding all architectural design as emerging from social
relationships tempered by individual creativity.
Presented in an essentially chronological sequence, from the medieval
to the post-war, diverse fresh viewpoints in the chapters of this book reinforce
understanding of how building design emerges not just from individual agency, that
is architects, but also from the collective traditions of society.
Peter Guillery is Senior Historian for the Survey of London, currently a part of English
Heritage. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (2004)
and of other books and articles on diverse aspects of London’s architectural history.
He is responsible for a ing Survey of London volume on Woolwich.
Built from Below:
British Architecture and
the Vernacular
Edited by Peter Guillery
First published 2011
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010.
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