It was built with the appropriate degree of elaboration, of scale, of presence in the landscape. Tonight I’m going to start with the third of my three factors, historicism, for it is this that most neatly links with what I said in my lecture in February.įrom the Middle Ages architecture was always a response to what was seen to be an appropriate form. The third is historicism, the fact that there were many styles to choose from, everything from Egyptian and Hindu to Ottoman and Elizabethan. The second is rapidly developing technology in materials and techniques: iron, steel, glass, terracotta etc. These are not in any order or causal juxtaposition: the first is, changing demands - new types of building for new types of activity: railway stations, post offices, law courts, factories, warehouses, pumping stations for example. The complexity of explaining and understanding English architecture after 1760 derives essentially from three things. Tonight I’m going to address the issue of architectural style in Victorian England. In October I will deliver 1830 to 1914 part II which will deal with Victorian cities and their infrastructure. Despite its advertised title I have decided to make tonight’s lecture, which deals with the period 1830 to 1914, part one of two. However Gresham College have made my job quite a lot easier as, since my last lecture, I have been invited to continue my visiting professorship for another year. Well, somehow I will have to, and that’s why, of course, I’m standing here.
#1914 MISERY STREET HOW TO#
What a vast subject, what a broad canvass, how to make sense of an age when so much was built and so much architectural diversity created. Tonight we turn to the nineteenth century. The End of the Old World Order, 1530-1650
#1914 MISERY STREET SERIES#
The other lectures in this series include the following: This extraordinary chronicle is not just history of architecture, but the history of an ascendant civilization.
This period was ended by another shattering event, but this time of global proportions – the First World War. Economic and technological change then drove English building in remarkable new directions for over 150 years. Starting with the shattering events of the Suppression of the Monasteries and the Civil War he moves on to look at the architectural consensus that briefly reigned in the mid eighteenth century before it dissolved in the white heat of the Industrial Revolution. In this lecture series Simon Thurley continues his investigation into the history of building in England. This is a part of the lecture series From Architectural Periphery to the World's Engine House: English Building from the Reformation to the First World War. But as the century turned there were already signs of big changes which were to go on to shape the England we now live in. Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire was, in part, a template for the world.
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