Book Description
Alexander Thomson produced a distinctive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname 'Greek'. This is a thorough visual guide to his work, including buildings now demolished.
Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Alexander Thomson produced a distinctive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname 'Greek'. This is a thorough visual guide to his work, including buildings now demolished.
Author : Alexander Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architects
ISBN :
Author : James Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Kathryn Waterfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0451532732
Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series! When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case. King Alexander went on to control most of the known world of the time. His victories won him many supporters, but they also earned him enemies. This easy-to-read biography offers a fascinating look at the life of Alexander and the world he lived in.
Author : Ronald McFadzean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780710000699
Author : Alexander Thomson
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
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Author : James Oliver Thomson
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Geography
ISBN : 9780819601438
Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Pevsner Architectural Guides
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1990-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300096743
Glasgow has a wide array of architectural treasures: the greatest medieval cathedral in Scotland; fragments of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 'merchant city'; the well-preserved heart of a planned new town, Blythswood; a city centre dense with Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings; stately nineteenth-century terraces lining the Great Western Road and picturesquely crowning Woodlands Hill; opulent villas in suburbs like Pollokshields and Kelvinside; and streets of tenements from the workaday to the grand. The twentieth century has encircled the city with a broad belt of public housing, and this too has a fascinating history that encompasses garden suburbs, early experiments in high-rise, comprehensive redevelopments and new interpretations of the tenement tradition. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander 'Greek' Thomson are, of course, internationally known, but the exceptional talents of Glasgow's many other architects, such as Charles Wilson, James Salmon Jr. and Jack Coia, have helped to shape the city's distinctive character.
Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1474472826
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to facade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.
Author : University of Glasgow
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 1891
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