商品簡介
Britton and Pugin's Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London was a landmark work on the key buildings of London. Featuring both well loved and lesser known buildings by some of the greatest architects of their day, including Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Nash, Decimus Burton, Inigo Jones, George Dance and John Soane, the volumes provide both architectural and historical detail on each of the buildings and are accompanied by Augustus Pugin's magnificent drawings of the facades, plans, interiors, architectural details, etc. Among the buildings featured are St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, the Banqueting House, Temple Church, Bank of England, the Law Courts, Regent's Park Terraces, and Freemasons' Hall, amongst many others. The term 'street architecture' was first coined in these two volumes. Now rare, these important volumes are reissued in a larger format with a new introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.
作者簡介
John Britton (1771-1857) was an antiquary, topographer and author and editor of works on architecture and topography.He was an advocate of the preservation of national monuments and proposed that a society be set up for that purpose. He writings are credited with bringing architecture and topography to the wider public. Among his works are The Beauties of England and Wales, Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain and The Cathedral Antiquities of Britain. Augustus Pugin (1762-1832) was an architectural draughtsman and writer on mediaeval architecture. Highly regarded by John Nash, who employed him as a draughtsman, he provided the illustrations for an number of important architectural works, including Specimens of Gothic Architecture, Microcosm of London, The Royal Pavilion Brighton, and Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London.