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Revivalism and Architecture: Referencing and Reworking History book cover

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Revivalism and Architecture Referencing and Reworking History

Edited By Peter N. Lindfield, Dan Talkes Copyright 2026
222 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is an original and focused academic examination of revivalism in architecture. It looks at how the past has and continues to shape our built environment and visual culture. With contributions by leading scholars and emerging names across the disciplines of architecture, architectural history, history, and design, Revivalism and Architecture explains and challenges our understanding... Read more

Historia Rediviva: Architectural Afterlives

Peter N. Lindfield

Introduction to The Essays

Dan Talkes

SECTION 1: Coded, Surprising Revivals

1.1 Contemporary Revivalism

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

1.2. Guises of the Picturesque: Revivifying the British Surface

Stephen Kite

SECTION 2: Challenging Revivalism and Ancient History

2.1. Prototype of Earnest Revivalism: Old Somerset House, London, and the Establishment, or Notion, of a National Style

Manolo Guerci

2.2. Sandown Castle’s Revivalism Hidden in Plain Sight: A Tale of Spolia

Christopher Moore

SECTION 3: Us and ‘The Other’

3.1. Mapping Revivals, Defining Style: The Alhambresque in The Long Nineteenth Century

Lieske Huits

3.2. Fiske Kimball and the Politics of the Colonial Revival

Jean-François Bédard

SECTION 4: Gothics

4.1. James Wyatt’s Westminster: A Turning Point in the Gothic Revival?

Murray Tremellen

4.2. Replication vs Evolution: The ‘Tudor Revival’ Buildings of Blunden Shadbolt and Ernest Trobridge

Tim Horne

SECTION 5: Decorative Arts

5.1. The Medievalisms of Victorian Stained Glass

Martin Crampin

5.2. Graphic Imagination: Reviving the ‘Ripon School’ Style

Peter N. Lindfield

Biography

Peter N. Lindfield is Lecturer in Architectural History at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has written extensively on the Gothic Revival, heraldry, forgery, and material culture, including the following monographs: Georgian Gothic (2016); Unbuilt Strawberry Hill (2022); and The Intimacies of George Shaw (2025). Additionally, Peter edited or co‑edited volumes including Writing Britain’s Ruins (2017); The Display of Arms (2019); Politics and the English Country House (2023); and The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York (2023).

Dan Talkes is Lecturer in Design and Construction at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. A recipient of the Welsh Gold Medal for Architecture, and an Accredited Conservation Architect (AABC), he is both an educator and practitioner, with a specialism in new architecture in historic contexts. Accordingly, questions of style appropriation and appropriateness infuse and inform both his practice and research, most particularly in his long‑standing role as Heritage Consultant, Conservation Architect and Design Advisor to the mediaeval and neo‑medieval St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol.

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