1996 / 216 pages. Broché. Editions Thames and Hudson.
Reference : ARCH054M
Very good condition / Trés bon état.
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, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 Hardback, 320 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 217 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781905375974.
Summary Nicholas Hawksmoor's dream of a new Oxford, though only partially realized between 1708 and 1736, remains one of the most striking examples of the architecture of knowledge from the early modern period. This was a time of erudite experimentation on paper and in stone. Academics and Hawksmoor as their chosen architect, alongside a range of other figures, envisaged a network of streets, paths, gates, and squares connecting newly designed colleges and libraries, as well as the university press. Complementing the feverish activity on the multiple construction sites, the study, collection, and dissemination of architecture was profoundly reshaped by a variety of types of knowledge and practical expertise. Building, thinking, and learning were more tightly intertwined in early eighteenth-century Oxford than ever before at a renowned university as it pivoted from medieval to modern. The graphic legacy of this intense activity remains with us in an abundance of drawings, prints, and treatises, many of which are published here for the first time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part I: Men of Letters, Men of Stones Chapter 1. I Am Architecture: Hawksmoor and Queen's College Chapter 2. Architecture into a Book: Aldrich and The Elements Chapter 3. Architecture of Knowledge: Clarke and the Library-Laboratory Part II: A City in Paper, a City of Stone Chapter 4. ?Generall Draughts, and Regular Schemes? (1710-1712) Chapter 5. ?Accademia Oxoniensis Amplificata et Exornata? (1713-1714) Chapter 6. Coming to Terms with History (1714-1736) Chapter 7. Conclusion: Architecture and Knowledge Notes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places