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Author Crouch, Christopher

Title Design culture in Liverpool, 1880-1914 : the origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture / Christopher Crouch
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations
Contents Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1: The Styling and Ideology of the Arts and Crafts in Liverpool; 2: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art: University College Liverpool and National Design Culture; 3: The Origins of the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art: Design Culture in Liverpool; 4: The Inauguration and Evolution of the Integrated Course at the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art; 5: Liverpool, the United States and the Beaux Arts Vision
Summary By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject University of Liverpool. School of Architecture -- History
University of Liverpool. School of Architecture -- Influence
SUBJECT University of Liverpool. School of Architecture fast
Subject Architecture -- England -- Liverpool
ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England -- Liverpool
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846312946
1846312949