{"title":"Eva Hagberg, When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232 pp. incl. 35 b&w ills, ISBN 9780691206677, £28","authors":"Léa-Catherine Szacka","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.29","url":null,"abstract":"Eva Hagberg, When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232 pp. incl. 35 b&w ills, ISBN 9780691206677, £28 - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"295 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jonathan Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance (Cardiff: Royal Society of Architects in Wales / Cymdeithas Frenhinol Penseiri yng Nghymru, University of Wales Press 2022); 408 pp. incl. 67 colour and 143 b&w illustrations, ISBN 9781786839138, £25","authors":"Elizabeth Green","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.27","url":null,"abstract":"Jonathan Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance (Cardiff: Royal Society of Architects in Wales / Cymdeithas Frenhinol Penseiri yng Nghymru, University of Wales Press 2022); 408 pp. incl. 67 colour and 143 b&w illustrations, ISBN 9781786839138, £25 - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135447315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roger White, Georgian Arcadia: Architecture for the Park and Garden (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023), 352 pp. incl. 312 colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9780300249958, £40","authors":"Geoffrey Tyack","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon Thurley, Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court (London: William Collins, 2021), 543 pp. incl. 25 colour and 138 b&w ills, ISBN 9780008389963, £25","authors":"Maurice Howard","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.17","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building the First Christian Church for the Shanghai Expatriate Community: Trinity Church, 1847–62","authors":"Hongbin Zheng, James W. P. Campbell","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Trinity Church, built in the British concession at Shanghai in 1847–48, was the first Christian church erected for the foreign community there. Although it was an important centre of worship for that community, within twenty years it had collapsed and been demolished; it was replaced by the current church, erected to designs by George Gilbert Scott between 1866 and 1869, since when the original church has been largely forgotten. However, the failures in construction that led to its demolition are instructive. Drawing on the transnational knowledge network of the British empire, especially the experience of the existing British settlements at Hong Kong and Canton (Guangzhou) a thousand miles to the south, the projectors of the building attempted to combine western and Chinese constructional traditions and practices. The colonists believed they were educating the workforce in the (purportedly superior) methods of the west, but they succeeded only in producing a constructional hybrid, with disastrous consequences. As a work of construction, the first Trinity Church reveals the problematic nature of building production in early treaty-port era Shanghai, while as a cultural construct it stands as a failed example of the so-called pedagogy of imperialism.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135447316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dark Portrait: John Britton’s Denunciation of John Soane","authors":"Brian Lukacher","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents hitherto overlooked documents at Vassar College in the United States relating to the character and reputation of the architect John Soane (1753–1837). The antiquarian and topographic author John Britton (1771–1857), a lifelong friend and associate of Soane, planned to write a ’tell-all’ biography in which he would reveal the malicious nature of the architect, and his obsession with remembrance and veneration, to scandalous effect. The scope and purpose of Britton’s intended exposé are established here through notes and correspondences that describe the resentful microclimate of the architects, writers, employees and family members in Soane’s orbit. A further manuscript by Britton, which satirises his devotion to Soane and the architect’s house museum, is also analysed. In the process, the article broaches the role of architectural journalism in fashioning the reputations of architects and their private and public personas in early Victorian London. It also considers the relationship of temperament to architectural invention and historiographic permutations in the controversial appraisal of Soane.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135447312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARH volume 66 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ilia M. Rodov, ed., <i>Enshrining the Sacred: Microarchitecture in Ritual Spaces</i> (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), 443 pp. incl. 158 colour ills, ISBN 9781433189647, £74 (hardback); ISBN 9781433194344, £59.20 (ebook)","authors":"Sally J. Cornelison","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.15","url":null,"abstract":"Ilia M. Rodov, ed., Enshrining the Sacred: Microarchitecture in Ritual Spaces (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), 443 pp. incl. 158 colour ills, ISBN 9781433189647, £74 (hardback); ISBN 9781433194344, £59.20 (ebook) - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135447086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying and Dating Mont Saint-Michel’s Early Monastic Buildings, <i>c.</i> 1070–1228","authors":"George N. Gandy","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT One of the best-known monastic settlements of western Europe, the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel occupies the summit of a prodigiously steep island site off the coast of Normandy in northern France. The church was built between 1023 and c. 1080–85. The monastic buildings, to the north of the church, were arranged vertically as much as horizontally, reflecting the constraints of the site. They appear to have comprised three adjacent and interconnecting buildings, two of three storeys, the other of two. However, two of these three ranges were overbuilt in the early thirteenth century by an ambitious development which became known as the Merveille ( c. 1212–28). This article seeks to identify the buildings that the Merveille replaced and thus the entire complex as it existed in the twelfth century. This inevitably involves a certain amount of speculation and perhaps for this reason the complex has hitherto been largely ignored, important though it is for an understanding of the abbey’s early history. The article also discusses other building projects relevant to the monks, such as the cemetery, the twelfth-century Hôtellerie and the thirteenth-century infirmary and mortuary chapel, and analyses the genesis of the Merveille. Among the findings or propositions are that the monks’ cemetery was housed in what may once have been a ducal palace; that the abbey’s cloister occupied the same position as it does today but was at a lower, mezzanine level and was smaller than the present cloister; that the chapter house and infirmary were probably adjacent to the west walk of the cloister; that the original provision for kitchen and cellar and for sleeping space was inadequate; and that the Merveille, which was the work of Abbot Raoul des Îles, was not entirely new-build as sometimes thought, but a transformation and redevelopment of buildings that already existed.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}