Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained study since the 1960s; yet it proliferated in Britain in the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace in 1851 - a time when some architects, engineers, manufacturers, and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. Comprehensively illustrated and richly researched, Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain presents the most...
Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained s...
The introduction of iron and later steel construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century. Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart for the first time the global reach of iron s architectural reception, from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into architecture s traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of its structural and...
The introduction of iron and later steel construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural emplo...
