{"title":"Maile S. Hutterer, Framing the Church: The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019), 224 pp. incl. 105 b&w ills, ISBN 9780271083445, £92.95","authors":"Lindsay S. Cook","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"Maile S. Hutterer, Framing the Church: The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019), 224 pp. incl. 105 b&w ills, ISBN 9780271083445, £92.95 - Volume 66","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":"135450447","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":"Vale of Leven: Britain’s First National Health Service Hospital, 1951–55","authors":"Harriet Richardson Blakeman","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While some of the major hospitals built in Britain following the creation of the National Health Service have attracted scholarly attention, Vale of Leven — the first NHS hospital — has been largely overlooked. Erected in 1952–55 at Alexandria, to the northwest of Glasgow, it was built with funds provided by the civil defence budget and was designed as both a potential emergency hospital during wartime and a peacetime general hospital to meet the needs of the local population. The architect, Joseph L. Gleave (1907–65), regarded the project as an opportunity to design a hospital based on the principles of the modern movement and, when it opened, it was applauded as the first ’modern’ hospital built by the NHS. As with the emergency hospitals built at the outset of the second world war, the design was based on a separation between circulation (the ’spine’) and accommodation, which comprised standardised but expandable modular units plugged into the spine, allowing flexibility for future change. Although Vale of Leven Hospital was not replicated, aspects of its planning and design were influential in the short term, and its legacy can be seen in the more compact standardised model of the nucleus hospitals developed in the 1970s.","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":"135450694","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":"Anna Sokolina, ed., The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), 436 pp. incl. 139 b&w ills, ISBN 9780367232344, £190 (hardback); ISBN 9780429278891, £27.99 (ebook)","authors":"Lynne Walker","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.25","url":null,"abstract":"Anna Sokolina, ed., The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), 436 pp. incl. 139 b&w ills, ISBN 9780367232344, £190 (hardback); ISBN 9780429278891, £27.99 (ebook) - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"83 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":"135450698","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 Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.32","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":"31 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":"135450709","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":"Lynette Widder, Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture (Zurich: gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, 2022), 318 pp. incl. 197 colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9783856764272, £60","authors":"Nicholas Bullock","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.31","url":null,"abstract":"Lynette Widder, Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture (Zurich: gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, 2022), 318 pp. incl. 197 colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9783856764272, £60 - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"55 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":"135450713","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":"The Roots of Scottish Baronial: Drawings for David Bryce’s Book Project, 1827–36","authors":"Ralph St Clair Wade","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article re-evaluates an unfinished book project by the celebrated Edinburgh architect David Bryce (1803–76). It demonstrates that a group of drawings in the British Architectural Library hitherto attributed to Bryce’s employer William Burn (1789–1870) was in fact the work of the young Bryce, who executed them between 1827 and 1831. This corpus emerges as the first stage of Bryce’s book project, of which only one volume, ‘Sketches of Scotch and Old English Ornament’ ( c. 1831–36), was compiled but not published. Bryce’s initiative, in turn, emerges as the preparatory effort for one of Victorian Scotland’s great sourcebooks, The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland (1845–52) by Robert William Billings. In itself, Bryce’s unpublished work represents a notably early engagement with the architecture of early modern Scotland; in its relation to the work of Billings, it played an appreciable role in the revival of Scotland’s national architecture.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"259 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":"135450312","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":"Demythologising Park Hill, Sheffield: The Hawksmoor Prize Essay 2022","authors":"Holly Smith","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Park Hill estate in Sheffield was one of the most monumental and experimental projects in twentieth-century British housing. Designed by two young architects, Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, it was constructed between 1957 and 1961 under the city’s Labour-led council, one of the country’s most visionary post-war local authorities. The estate has been celebrated for its ’streets in the sky’ design, an architectural approach associated with Alison and Peter Smithson which sought to salvage and recreate patterns of working-class community and social life from the slums that were razed during the rebuilding of Britain’s cities. This article deconstructs mythologies that have come to dominate narratives about Park Hill and its approach to community. It shows that the design of the estate did not recreate the pattern of nineteenth-century housing which formerly stood on the site, nor was it conceived to recreate the working-class community which had existed there. In doing so, this article reassesses the supposed political radicalism of the British welfare state in the early post-war period. While Park Hill has been acclaimed as architecturally innovative, its politics were not straightforwardly progressive. Like much post-war reconstruction, it sprang from a dialogue with older liberal frameworks of welfare delivery.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"6 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":"135450445","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 Perfect Expression of the Life of a Modern University’: Collegiate Gothic and Urban Progressivism at the University of Chicago, 1890–1918","authors":"Stephen Gage","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Collegiate gothic architecture built in the United States during the early twentieth century has generally been considered an anti-modern reaction to the rapid changes of the period. This article challenges that interpretation by analysing the collegiate gothic architecture and planning of the University of Chicago from its incorporation in 1890 up to 1918, focusing on the work of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, which hitherto has been almost entirely neglected. In these decades, the campus changed considerably from the original 1893 quadrangular plan by Henry Ives Cobb. Archival sources are used to trace this shift, with particular attention to three major buildings designed by Charles Coolidge: the Tower Group (1903), Harper Memorial Library (1912) and Ida Noyes Hall (1916). In their architecture and planning, each of these projects set new precedents for the adaptive possibilities of collegiate gothic and changed how the campus related to its urban neighbourhood. From 1900, the university’s leaders consciously opened the campus to its surroundings and realigned it to the Midway Plaisance, the renowned public greenway designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In doing so, the university pioneered a new campus typology, the academic avenue, which represented a positive embrace of urban life within wider debates on the American city. Through this typology, the university’s collegiate gothic architecture made meaningful connections with Chicago’s progressive civic culture, in consonance with the educational philosophy of its founding president, William Rainey Harper.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"11 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":"135450702","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":"Frank Kelsall and Timothy Walker, Nicholas Barbon: Developing London, 1667–1698 (London: London Topographical Society, 2022), vii and 230 pp. incl. colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9780902087736, £35","authors":"Elizabeth McKellar","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.18","url":null,"abstract":"Frank Kelsall and Timothy Walker, Nicholas Barbon: Developing London, 1667–1698 (London: London Topographical Society, 2022), vii and 230 pp. incl. colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9780902087736, £35 - Volume 66","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"159 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":"135450708","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":"Victoria Perry, A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape (London: Hurst, 2022), 272 pp. incl. 75 colour ills, ISBN 9781787386969, £25","authors":"Louis P. Nelson","doi":"10.1017/arh.2023.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2023.22","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":"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":"135450316","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}