Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain. A sociological study

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Based on the writer's doctoral thesis. Provides a 'sociological analysis of the development of professionalism among British architects; that is, it attempts to show what the functions of the architectural profession have been, and how it has set about fulfilling them... The whole concern of this study may be said to be an attempt to answer the two questions: why did professionalism develop amongst architects of Britain when it did, and why has it taken the form it has taken?' Chapters are: 'Function of professionalism'; 'Function of the architect'; 'Origins of the architectural profession'; 'Status and training of the architect in the 17th and 18th centuries'; 'Birth of artistic self consciousness'; 'Architecture as art. The Gothic revival'; 'Spread of professionalism'; 'Battle of the styles and the profession or art controversy'; 'Modern architecture and the closure of the profession'