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ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
"The ideal book for all who want to learn more about a remarkably rich national inheritance."
— House & Garden
The emphasis is
on the high points of English creative genius as expressed in the art
of architecture by Edwin Lutyens, Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, John
Soane, James Stirling, Richard Rogers, and a host of others. This updated
edition includes a new preface, a revised bibliography, and an expanded
chapter on twentieth-century architecture that brings the story up to
the present. David Watkin is
a Fellow of Peterhouse and Reader in the History of Architecture at
the University of Cambridge. His many books include Morality and
Architecture.
"Watkin has earned our gratitude for making such good sense in so few words of so many
earlier movements and styles."
ISBN 0-500-20338-5 · 5 7/8" x 8 1/4"
paper · 320 illustrations · 224 pages · ART
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This comprehensive, well-illustrated survey of English architecture provides
an evenhanded, straightforward history from Anglo-Saxon times to the end
of the twentieth century. Concentrating on buildings that can still be
seen today, David Watkin discusses all the styles and periods of English
architecture, including Norman, early Gothic, Perpendicular, Tudor and
Jacobean, Baroque, Classical, and Victorian.