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9780300081954

John Soane, Architect : Master of Space and Light

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300081954

  • ISBN10:

    0300081952

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-01-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

Sir John Soane's position in the history of British architecture is extraordinary. As one of the revolutionary innovators of international neoclassicism, he has a stature comparable to that of the great French and German architects Claude Nicolas Ledoux and Kart Friedrich Schinkel, and like them he has served as a source of inspiration to subsequent generations of architects, most particularly in recent years. This wide-ranging book considers Soane's architectural achievements as well as his life and public role.

The book reproduces over one hundred of Soane's drawings and contains specially commissioned photographs of his original models and existing buildings. The contributors to the volume discuss all of the architect's major commissions, including the Dulwich College Art Gallery, the Law Courts at Westminster, and the Bank of England. Throughout Soane's work two dominant qualities emerge: a distinctive handling of space, primarily in interiors, and an abstracted linear style that evolved over the course of his career.

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Preface 8(1)
President's Foreword 9(3)
Exhibition Organisation 12(1)
Acknowledgements and Lenders to the Exhibition 13(3)
Soane: The Man and His Circle
16(10)
Gillian Darley
Soane's Spaces and the Matter of Fragmentation
26(12)
Robin Middleton
Soane: The Royal Academician and the Public Realm
38(10)
David Watkin
Soane's Legacy
48(14)
Margaret Richardson
`Wall, ceiling, enclosure and light': Soane's Designs for Domes
62(6)
Christopher Woodward
Soane: The Pragmatic Architect
68(10)
Ptolemy Dean
Beginnings and Early Training
78(8)
Gillian Darley
A Royal Academy Student in Architecture
86(10)
Nicholas Savage
The Grand Tour
96(18)
Gillian Darley
Early Practice: Country Houses and the Primitive
114(8)
Ptolemy Dean
Wimpole Hall
122(6)
Christopher Woodward
Tyringham
128(14)
Margaret Richardson
Pitzhanger Manor
142(8)
Heather Ewing
12-14 Lincoln's Inn Fields
150(24)
Helen Dorey
Dulwich Picture Gallery
174(12)
Giles Waterfield
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
186(10)
Heather Ewing
The Soane Family Tomb
196(4)
Christopher Woodward
Pell Wall
200(8)
John Wibberley
Barry Clayton
The Bank of England
208(44)
Daniel Abramon
The Processional Route
252(12)
Sean Sawyer
Freemasons' Hall
264(4)
David Watkin
The Law Courts
268(8)
Sean Sawyer
Imaginative Compositions
276(6)
Margaret Richardson
Chronology 282(1)
Chronological List of Soane's Building Projects 283(6)
Bibliography 289(3)
Glossary 292(1)
Index 293(3)
Photographic Acknowledgements 296

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