1st Edition
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings
By Anne Bordeleau
Copyright 2014
236 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers... Read more
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time
Biography
Anne Bordeleau is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
'Bordeleau’s complex and theoretically rich book on Cockerell brings readers into contact with the heart of his belief that "The architect adds the substantial and enduring merit of utility, to the glory of beauty of fine arts and transcend (sic) them all ... He then is the true historian of his times". The Victorian 'By closely assessing Cockerell’s drawings and architecture, and by drawing parallels between his contemporaries’and architects’ practice across periods, the study provides insight not only into Cockerell’s work, but also into wider questions on the relation of architecture to time and history.' The Burlington Magazine
