Oxford (eBook)

Matthew Rice (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
208 Seiten
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-9572-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Discover Oxford, one of the jewels of European architecture. Much loved and much visited, the city offers an unparalleled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rices Oxford is a feast of delightful watercolor illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today. While the focus is on architectural detail, Rice describes how the city has been shaped by its history, topography and geology, but most of all by generations of patrons who had the education and the resources to commission work from the greatest architects and builders of their day, an astonishing range of which still stands. Ranging from the medieval to the contemporary, the book covers all the iconic buildings, such as the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre and the college quads, as well as the distinctive details that you might otherwise miss. More than anywhere else in England, it is possible in Oxford to take in the history of English architecture simply by walking todays streets, lanes, parks and meadows. This book is the perfect guide.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architects • architectural detail • Architecture • Balliol • Bodleian Library • Brideshead Revisited • broad street • Building Norfolk • carfax • Christchurch Meadow • Christopher Wren • Cornmarket • Country Life • dreaming spires • Education • emma bridgewater • Hertford College • History of Architecture • history of English architecture • Jericho • Keble College • Lady Margaret Hall • Lincoln College • Magdalen College • Matthew Arnold • medieval architecture • Merton College • North Oxford • Oxfordshire • Oxford University • patrons • Port Meadow • punting • Queen's College • Radcliffe Camera • rhodes scholar • Rice's primer • River Cherwell • River Isis • Somerville College • South Park • St Edmund Hall • St Giles • St Hugh's College • St John's College • Thames • Topography • Trinity College • Turl Street • University Parks • Victorian Gothic • Watercolour • watercolour illustrations • Worcester College • World of Interiors • Zuleika Dobson
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-9572-7 / 0711295727
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-9572-8 / 9780711295728