Description |
1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1: The Styling and Ideology of the Arts and Crafts in Liverpool; 2: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art: University College Liverpool and National Design Culture; 3: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art: Design Culture in Liverpool; 4: The Inauguration and Evolution of the Integrated Course at the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art; 5: Liverpool, the United States and the Beaux Arts Vision |
Summary |
By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aest |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
University of Liverpool. School of Architecture -- History
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University of Liverpool. School of Architecture -- Influence
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SUBJECT |
University of Liverpool. School of Architecture fast |
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Architecture -- England -- Liverpool
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architecture
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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England -- Liverpool
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781846312946 |
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1846312949 |
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