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These days it seems obvious that stupendous constructions like St Pancras Station should be preserved and restored. But as recently as the 1970s Glasgow’s superb St Enoch’s Hotel made way for a shopping centre, and in the 1960s St Pancras itself was also earmarked for demolition. “Victorian” was a term of abuse. Add in wartime bombing by the Luftwaffe, and town planners eager for ring roads and multi-storeys, and the destruction is shocking. This poignant, angry book, full of stunning images, chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through Britain’s architectural heritage by the twentieth century’s sustained antipathy to the nineteenth, entirely through buildings that have disappeared. Of the 200 notable examples of Victorian architecture illustrated in this book, from the magnificent Imperial Institute in Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall, not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes célèbres like the Euston Arch and London’s Coal Exchange, Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings, like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London, or Chatsworth’s soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising, chastening, but also uplifting, Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world that should never have been lost.

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Raccolta deli articoli scritti dal 2004 dallo storico dell’architettura inglese GAVIN STAMP su APOLLO. Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britain’s most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is simply whatever in design or architecture happens to take his fancy. It might be the splendid reopening of the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station, or the dilapidation of a little-known church in Eastbourne, the much-lamented demise of the original Routemaster bus, or the colossal majesty of the airship sheds that housed the R.101.

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CATALogo di una interessante esposizione sull’immagine della città di Parigi nei progetti mai realizzati e nella bande dessinée dall’800 ad oggi.

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Bel catalogo illustrato di una interessante esposizione in corso alla Cité d’architecture Paris.

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Fondamentale e originale studio sulla ricezione dei grandi lavori di ristrutturazione urbana di Parigi ad opera del prefetto Haussmann attraverso la stampa popolare illustrata dell’epoca

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L’edizione originale in inglese manca dal nostro catalogo, in particolare questa del 1980 con la cruciale introduzione e conseguente ri-contestualizzazione del testo di Scott nel mutato scenario storiografico e critico della fine degli anni settanta ad opera di DAVID WATKIN

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Antologia illustrata di uno dei più celebri e acuti vignettisti di architettura viventi, Louis Hellmann autore di centinaia di cartoons per il settimanale AJ dal 1967 a oggi

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Uno dei testi più famosi dell’ illustratore americano del New Yorker celebre per le centinaia di vignette satiriche inerenti episodi della professione e della cultura architettonica newyorkese e nordamericana del secondo Novecento

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Impeccabile analisi dei processi che conducono alla nascita di una prima dimensione pubblica del dibattito sull’architettura nella Francia del XVIII secolo.

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Testo fondamentale dell’architetto e prolifico autore Peter Blake, essenziale per capire la transizione tra crisi del paradigma dell’International style e postmodernismo.

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