Coventry New Architecture
Author | : Grant Lewison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Grant Lewison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grant Lewison |
Publisher | : Editors 33 High St. |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780950105505 |
Author | : Mark Girouard |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300063219 |
By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks, council chambers and assembly rooms, the author traces the development of English towns through the centuries.
Author | : Caroline Gould |
Publisher | : English Heritage |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1848023413 |
The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapid change, was largely destroyed on that night. The destruction was seen as an opportunity by some including the then City Architect, Donald Gibson. The result was the first of the master plans for post-war redevelopment of Britain's bombed city centres. The redevelopment of Coventry city centre to plans by Gibson and his successors provided an intensely urban and civilised centre, embodying new planning principles. Post-war Coventry was hugely influential and Gibson's ideas helped to shape the rebuilding of other city centres, the post-war new towns and developments in Europe. Despite incremental change in the subsequent decades the planning and architecture of Gibson's city centre are still clearly legible. The modern demands of a growing city on its centre are now very different from those of the post-war years. Coventry needs to grow and plan for its future and change will inevitably affect the city centre. This book aims to inform the public and decision makers of the significance of Coventry, and especially its centre, so that change can be managed in ways that will continue the life, use and enjoyment of the best of Coventry's remarkable post-war heritage.
Author | : Linda Monckton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351570870 |
The British Archaeological Association's 2007 conference celebrated the material culture of medieval Coventry, the fourth wealthiest English city of the later middle ages. The nineteen papers collected in this volume set out to remedy the relative neglect in modern scholarship of the city's art, architecture and archaeology, as well as to encompass recent research on monuments in the vicinity. The scene is set by two papers on archaeological excavations in the historic city centre, especially since the 1970s, and a paper investigating the relationships between Coventry's building boom and economic conditions in the city in the later middle ages. Three papers on the Cathedral Priory of St Mary bring together new insights into the Romanesque cathedral church, the monastic buildings and the post-Dissolution history of the precinct, derived mainly from the results of the Phoenix Initiative excavations (19992003). Three more papers provide new architectural histories of the spectacular former parish church of St Michael, the fine Guildhall of St Mary and the remarkable surviving west range of the Coventry Charterhouse. The high-quality monumental art of the later medieval city is represented by papers on wall-painting (featuring the recently conserved Doom in Holy Trinity church), on the little-known Crucifixion mural at the Charterhouse, and on a reassessment of the working practices of the famous master-glazier, John Thornton. Two papers on a guild seal and on the glazing at Stanford on Avon parish church consider the evidence for Coventry as a regional workshop centre for high quality metalwork and glass-painting. Beyond the city, three papers deal with the development of Combe Abbey from Cistercian monastery to country house, with the Beauchamp family's hermitage at Guy's Cliffe, and with a newly identified stonemasons' workshop in the 'barn' at Kenilworth Abbey. Two further papers concern the architectural patronage of the earls and dukes of Lancaster in the 14th century at Kenilworth Castle and in the Newarke at Leicester Castle.
Author | : Rachel Cusk |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374717435 |
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
Author | : Adrian Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9781907869822 |
'Towns in Britain' is an evocation and appreciation of towns and cities and an evaluation of the changes which have shaped them over the last 60 years. Twenty-five places are covered, as diverse as Hackney and Glasgow, Lincoln and Letchworth and Coventry and Swansea.
Author | : George Demidowicz |
Publisher | : Buildings of England (Tempus) |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This is a collection of archive photographs and ephemera featuring the buildings of Coventry, accompanied by informative text.
Author | : David McGrory |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445665794 |
Explores the rich and fascinating history of Coventry through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Author | : Jeremy Gould |
Publisher | : Informed Conservation |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781848022454 |
The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapid change, was largely destroyed on that night. The destruction was seen as an opportunity by some including the then City Architect, Donald Gibson. The result was the first of the master plans for post-war redevelopment of Britain's bombed city centres. The redevelopment of Coventry city centre to plans by Gibson and his successors provided an intensely urban and civilised centre, embodying new planning principles. Post-war Coventry was hugely influential and Gibson's ideas helped to shape the rebuilding of other city centres, the post-war new towns and developments in Europe. Despite incremental change in the subsequent decades the planning and architecture of Gibson's city centre are still clearly legible.The modern demands of a growing city on its centre are now very different from those of the post-war years. Coventry needs to grow and plan for its future and change will inevitably affect the city centre. This book aims to inform the public and decision makers of the significance of Coventry, and especially its centre, so that change can be managed in ways that will continue the life, use and enjoyment of the best of Coventry's remarkable post-war heritage.