Enriching architecture : Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760 / / edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes ; with foreword by Glenn Adamson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910641199203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : UCL Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 9781800083547
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 720.942
• Soggetti: Architecture - Great Britain - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1, Loss and retrieval. 1 'Onslow Palace': new evidence of eighteenth-century craft technique at Clandon Park Sophie Chessum ; 2 Piercing the surface: virtuoso wooden staircases from Cassiobury Park and Eyrecourt Castle Mechthild Baumeister and Andrew Tierney ; 3 Fragments of eighteenth-century craftsmanship: the Pearson collection Peter Pearson ; 4 Experiments with historic light in Kensington Palace's early eighteenth-century interiors Lee Prosser ; 5 Retrieving craft practice on the early eighteenth-century building site Melanie Hayes ; 6 Conserving craft in eighteenth-century buildings: the role of the conservation architect Tony Barton ;Part 2, Design and making. 7 The geometry of rustication: an eighteenth-century case study Edward McParland ; 8 The rough and the smooth: stone use in Dublin 1720-60 Patrick Wyse Jackson and Louise Caulfield ; 9 Drawing out a surface in lime and hair Jenny Saunt ; 10 'Agreeable to live in': the wainscoted interior in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Christine Casey ; 11 A glorious ascent: staircase design, construction and craft in the circle of Richard Castle Andrew Tierney.
• Sommario/riassunto: Refinement and enrichment of surfaces in stone, wood and plaster isa fundamental aspect of early modern architecture which has beenmarginalised by architectural history. EnrichingArchitecture aims to retrieve and rehabilitate surfaceachievement as a vital element of early modern buildings in Britainand Ireland. Rejected by modernism, ; demeaned by the conceptual'turn' and too often reduced to its representative or socialfunctions, we argue for the historical legitimacy of creative craftskill as a primary agent in architectural production. However, incontrast to the connoisseurial and developmental perspectives ofthe past, this book is concerned with how surfaces were designed,achieved and experienced. The contributors draw upon the majorrethinking of craft and materials within the wider cultural spherein recent years to deconstruct traditional, oppositional ways ofthinking about architectural production. This is not a craft forcraft's sake argument but an effort to embed the tangible findingsof conservation and curatorial research within an evidence-ledarchitectural history that illuminates the processes of earlymodern craftsmanship. The book explores broad themes of surfacetreatment such as wainscot, rustication, plasterwork, and staircaseembellishment together with chapters focused on virtuoso buildingsand set pieces which illuminate these themes.