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Crook, Joseph Mordaunt was born on February 27, 1937 in London. Son of Austin Mordaunt and Irene (Woolfenden) Crook.
(There have been many books about Victorian and Edwardian ...)
There have been many books about Victorian and Edwardian houses, but this is the first to concentrate on the taste of the nouveaux riches. Not just the rich but the very rich: those who grew immensely wealthy in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. Cotton, shipping, steel, real estate, diamonds, chemicals, banking, the stock market -- that was how they made their money. But what did they do with it? Where and how did they live? J. Mordaunt Crook, one of Britain's leading architectural historians, describes the houses of the richest of the new rich -- the Rothschilds, the Guinnesses, the Beits and the Brasseys, the Barings, the Wernhers, the Tennants, the Sassoons -- and explains the economic and social context that sustained their extraordinary lifestyles. In effect, he tells the story of the remaking of the British ruling class. Enhanced with numerous photos as well as excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs.
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(This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscover...)
This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscovery of Greece, involving the figures like Hell Fire Dashwood, Twitcher Sandwich and the Dilettanti Society. Their propagation of the Neo-Classical theory is explained and the expression of that theory in Greek Revival architecture covered.
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( Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critic...)
Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas—from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism—form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years—Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern—The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of architectural ideas. This challenging book confronts one of the central problems of architectural theory: the nature—and necessity—of style.
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(Ranging widely over English architecture during the last ...)
Ranging widely over English architecture during the last 200 years, through Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian styles to the present day, this fully illustrated study explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Joe Mordaunt Crook, a leading authority on British architectural history, has also written "The Greek Revival" and "William Burges and the High Victorian Dream".
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( William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of a...)
William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous, and fabulously expensive, buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more, designed dozens, and in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture and jewellery of all time. He was an art-architect. Rich, clever, well connected and short lived, he was uncompromising, profoundly learned, skilled in every process of design and explosively inventive. A brilliant talker, pungent critic and hilarious companion, he was one of Victorian London's great eccentrics and networkers, though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages. The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral, Cardiff Castle and the even more eccentric Castell Coch, the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton and Studley Royal, the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon, and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, and his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture, fabric and jewellery designs and his unrealised projects were also hugely influential, and the former are now enthusiastically collected. This book was a landmark in Victorian studies when first published in 1981 and is now completely revised and re-illustrated substantially in colour.
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Crook, Joseph Mordaunt was born on February 27, 1937 in London. Son of Austin Mordaunt and Irene (Woolfenden) Crook.
Bachelor, University of Oxford, England, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, England, 1961; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, England, 1961.
Lecturer Bedford College London University, 1965-1975, reader, 1975-1980, professor, 1981-1985, Royal Halloway College, 1985-1999. Slade professor Oxford University, 1979-1980, Waynflete lecturer, 1985-1986. Emeritus professor architectural history London University, since 1999.
(Ranging widely over English architecture during the last ...)
( Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critic...)
(This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscover...)
(There have been many books about Victorian and Edwardian ...)
( William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of a...)
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Fellow Society Antiquaries, British Academy.
Married Susan Mayor, September 7, 1975.