Shaping the surface : materiality and the history of British architecture 1840-2000

"Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as a 'national mania for beautiful surface quality', this book makes a new contr...

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Main Author:	Kite, Stephen, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022
Genre/form:	monografie
ISBN:	978-1-3503-2065-9 978-1-3503-2066-6 978-1-3503-2067-3 978-1-3503-2068-0
Subjects:	19.-20. století 1840-2000 architektura architektonické prvky britská architektura moderní architektura historie dějiny architektury povrch stavební hmoty stavební materiály
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