Research Catalog

Title

The architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 / edited by Louisa Humm, John Lowrey and Aonghus MacKechnie.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Humm, Louisa
• Lowrey, John
• MacKechnie, Aonghus

Description

xxviii, 642 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town"--

Subject

• 1600-1799
• Architecture, Scottish
• Architecture > Scotland > History > 17th century
• Architecture > Scotland > History > 18th century
• Architecture
• Scotland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-612) and index.

Contents

I. Setting the scene -- Introduction / Aonghus MacKechnie -- 1. Political economy and the shaping of early modern Scotland / Allan I. Macinnes -- II. Classicism and the castle -- 2. The paired columned entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic signifier / Ian Campbell -- 3. Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in the age of 1689 revolution and 1707 union / Aonghus MacKechnie -- 4. Sir William Bruce : classicism and the castle / John Lowrey -- 5. A classic looks at the gothic : Sir John Clerk, ruins and romance / Iain Gordon Brown -- III. The business of building, trades, materials and pattern books -- 6. Scottish ironwork 1660-1730 / Ali Davey and Aonghus MacKechnie -- 7. Thomas Albourn, William Bruce's plasterer : an Englishman and the best plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland / William Napier -- 8. The roof structure of George Heriot's hospital chapel and roof design in Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Anna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo -- 9. Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh : rethinking the origins of the British architectural plate book / James Legard -- IV. The country house -- 10. The architectural innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645-1731) within the European context / Cristina González-Longo -- 11. From England to Scotland in 1701 : the Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith Palace / Sally Jeffery -- 12. Women patrons and designers in early eighteenth-century Scotland : Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne / Clarisse Godard Desmarest -- 13. Architectural works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun / Rory Lamb -- 14. Mannerism in the work of John Douglas in eighteenth century Scotland / Dimitris Theodossopoulos -- V. Gardens -- 15. 'The inexpressible need of inclosing and planting' : country house policies in Scotland 1660-1750 / Christopher Dingwall -- 16. The terraced garden in Scotland in the seventeenth century / Marilyn Brown -- 17. Alexander Edward's European tour, 1701-2 / John Lowrey -- 18. William Adam and formal landscape design in Scotland 1720-45 / Louisa Humm -- 19. William Adam and antiquity : an arcadian retreat at Arniston? / Nick Haynes -- VI. Urban architecture -- 20. Town housing and planning : Alexander McGill, James Gibbs and Allan Dreghorn in early Georgian Glasgow / Anthony Lewis -- 21. Interpretation of European classicism : three eighteenth century university libraries / Deborah Mays -- 22. Edinburgh and Venice : comparing the evolution in communal living in geographically challenged mercantile communities / Giovanna Guidicini -- 23. Living horizontally : the origin of the tenement in Paris and Edinburgh / Clarisse Godard Desmarest -- 24. William Adam's public buildings / David W. Walker -- VII. Conclusion -- 25. Was Scotland a 'narrow place'? / Ranald MacInnes.

Call Number

JQF 21-942

ISBN

• 1474455263
• 9781474455268

OCLC

1117535310

Title

The architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 / edited by Louisa Humm, John Lowrey and Aonghus MacKechnie.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 530-612) and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1799

Added Author

Humm, Louisa, editor.

Lowrey, John, editor.

MacKechnie, Aonghus, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-942