{"product_id":"the-wessex-project-thomas-hardy-architect","title":"Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect","description":"Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory. The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect. It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation – which would still be radical a century later. Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day.","brand":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54210262958424,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781848222502.jpg?v=1764938715","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-wessex-project-thomas-hardy-architect","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}