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Oxford
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Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rice's Oxford is a feast of delightful watercolour illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today.
While the focus is on architectural detail, Rice also describes how the city has been shaped by its history, most of all by generations of patrons who had the education and the resources to commission work from the greatest architects and builders of their day, an astonishing range of which still stands.
More than anywhere else in England, it is possible in Oxford to take in the history of English architecture simply by walking today's streets, lanes, parks and meadows.
'A lovely book extensively illustrated with his idiosyncratic and witty watercolours' Daily Telegraph on Building Norfolk.
'His pictures sing from the page. Unlike photographs, the medium allows him to 'emphasise, exclude or exaggerate', and its washes are ideal for rendering, say, the uneven colour of a wall of carrstone. Architectural features have annotations in the author's own hand, and these can range from the witty to exasperated' World of Interiors on Building Norfolk
While the focus is on architectural detail, Rice also describes how the city has been shaped by its history, most of all by generations of patrons who had the education and the resources to commission work from the greatest architects and builders of their day, an astonishing range of which still stands.
More than anywhere else in England, it is possible in Oxford to take in the history of English architecture simply by walking today's streets, lanes, parks and meadows.
'A lovely book extensively illustrated with his idiosyncratic and witty watercolours' Daily Telegraph on Building Norfolk.
'His pictures sing from the page. Unlike photographs, the medium allows him to 'emphasise, exclude or exaggerate', and its washes are ideal for rendering, say, the uneven colour of a wall of carrstone. Architectural features have annotations in the author's own hand, and these can range from the witty to exasperated' World of Interiors on Building Norfolk
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INDEX
A
Ackroyd 74
Adam, Robert 118, 197
Alberti, Leon Battista 10
Aldrich, Henry 69, 98, 105, 113
Algar, King 28
Alice in Wonderland 51
All Saints Church 34, 35, 113, 113
All Souls College 11, 12, 57, 62, 62
gate tower 27, 2a7
North Quad 71, 71
Allfrey, Edward 165
Anglican Church 10, 18, 140, 168
Anglo-Saxons 14, 34, 41
Antiquarianism 70
Architects’ Co-Partnership 184, 189
Art Deco 94, 184
Arts and Crafts 81, 91, 184
Arup Associates 187
Ashmolean Museum 14, 77, 80, 168, 177
Augustinians 18
B
Balliol College 36, 36, 16...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Monastic Oxford (Early days to 1536)
- Parish Churches
- Reformation and Restoration (1536–1700)
- Hotels, Pubs and Pavilions
- Georgian Oxford (1700–1830)
- Streets and Houses
- The Battle of the Styles (1835–1918)
- Civic Pride
- Modern Oxford (1945–today)
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright