Building Reputations. Architecture and artisan, 1750-1830
Details:
- Author(s) Lucey, Conor
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 244pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Professions, professionalism & professionalisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A cultural study shedding light on the changing role of the tradesman in terraced town house design and construction in London, Dublin and Philadelphia. Draws on a doctoral dissertation. 'This book is an attempt to rehabilitate the reputations of both product (house) and producer (builder) and to establish their rightful places within the architectural firmament'. Has chapters: 'Building reputations - a genteel life in trade'; 'Designing houses - the facade and the architecture of street and square'; 'Decorating houses - style, taste and the business of decoration '; 'Building sales - advertising and the property market'; 'Conclusion - the builder rehabilitated'