1st Edition
The Victorian Art School Architecture, History, Environment
1. Introduction
The Environment of the City
Urban Improvement
A Municipal Awakening
2. ‘By the Gains of Industry we Promote Art’: New schools for design
Lighting in the Early Academies
The Department of Science and Art
The Culture of the Artisan
3. A worthy facade: Manchester School of Art
The Condition of Manchester
Fine Art or Design?
Who Pays?
A Spacious Site
Galleries and Studios
4. ‘Drawn from the light’: Birmingham School of Art
Chamberlain and the Civic Gospel
The Value of Culture
The Industrial Patronage of Art Education
The Influence of Ruskin
The Evolution of the Design
The School’s Influence
5. Into clean air: Glasgow School of Art
‘Let Art Flourish’
Realising the Ideal Environment
Lighting, Ventilation and Warming
A Formal Synthesis
A Microcosm of the City
6. ‘Local centres of civilisation’: The art school in context
Parting the Smoke
The Civilising Power of Art
Culture as a Civic Project
Dissolving into Light and Air
Unifying Art and Design
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ranald Lawrence is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. His research examines the history of environmental design, and the broader relationship between buildings and climate in different cultural contexts. Ranald has worked with several award-winning architectural practices as a designer and researcher. He completed his PhD research on Victorian art schools at the University of Cambridge, funded by the AHRC.
"In this rich study of the art school buildings built in the problematic urban microclimates of the three greatest Victorian cities, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, Ranald Lawrence adds a significant new dimension to our understanding of the architecture of that time." - Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Professor, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, and Darwin College, Cambridge"Lawrence’s book is an impressive and erudite new insight into a period that still has technical and cultural relevance for architects and others working in the field of the built environment." - Professor Colin Porteous OBE, Glasgow School of Art
