The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect Hardback
by KESTER RATTENBURY
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Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own.
But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory.
The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect. This book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect.
It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation – which would still be radical a century later.
Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 80 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:18/01/2018
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- ISBN:9781848222502
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 80 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:18/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848222502