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The Edwardians and their Houses: The New Life of Old England (Hardcover)

The Edwardians and their Houses: The New Life of Old England By Timothy Brittain-Catlin Cover Image
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Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative and provided new building types for weekends, sport, and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health, and science. This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970's and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and influenced the pattern of building across England at every scale. It also looks at the building literature of the period and traces the links between these houses and suburbs, as well as the other creative forms of the period. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and results in an original interpretation of British culture of the period.

About the Author


Timothy Brittain-Catlin is Reader in Architecture at Kent School of Architecture and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. His publications include Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture, The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century, and Architecture: Learn how to Read a Building.

Praise For…


"Rich, dense [...] will cause us to look at Edwardian architecture in an entirely new way." —Jane Ridley, C20 Society

"Challenges any complacency one might have about the simplicity or sterility of the architectural scene just ahead of ‘our period’." —Catherine Croft, C20 Magazine

"Timothy Brittain-Catlin has authored an intelligent, scholarly and beautifully illustrated tome... a wonderful thing, elegantly written and superbly illustrated: it celebrates agreeable human habitats designed by truly creative professionals that show up the dire, ugly, shameful mess being made nowadays." —James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education

"Engagingly written and beautifully produced" —Annette Carruthers, Decorative Arts Society


Product Details
ISBN: 9781848222687
ISBN-10: 1848222688
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Publication Date: July 31st, 2020
Pages: 240
Language: English