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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

English

By (author): Simon Jenkins

'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory Stewart

The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. A Short History of British Architecture is the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, from prehistoric Stonehenge to the lofty towers of today.

Bestselling historian Simon Jenkins traces the relentless battles over the European traditions of classicism and gothic. He guides us from the gothic cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely and Wells to the prodigy houses of the Tudor renaissance, and visits the great estates of Georgian London, the docks of Liverpool, the mills of Yorkshire and the chapels of south Wales.

The arrival of modernism in the twentieth century politicised public taste, upheaved communities and sought to reconstruct entire cities. It produced Coventry Cathedral and Lloyds of London, but also the brutalist monoliths of Sheffields Park Hill, Glasgows Cumbernauld and Londons South Bank. Only in the 1970s did the public at last give voice to what became the conservation revolution a movement in which Jenkins played a leading role, both as deputy chairman of English Heritage and chairman of the National Trust, and in the saving of iconic buildings such as St Pancras International and Covent Garden.

Jenkins shows that everyone is a consumer of architecture and makes the case for the importance of everyone learning to speak its language. A Short History of British Architecture is a celebration of our national treasures, a lament of our failures and a call to arms.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 593g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241674956

About Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England A Short History of Europe Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses. He is a former Editor of the Evening Standard and The Times and columnist for the Guardian.

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