Name: Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen von Joseph Sharples
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Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen Joseph Sharples

The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen the nations third-largest city and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeens architectural highlights are the great medieval cathedral and burgh church of St Nicholas, the buildings of Kings College, and magnificent civic, commercial and domestic buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian age. In addition, the book showcases not only Aberdeenshires greatest houses and castles including Crathes, Craigievar and Balmoral, the royal familys Scottish estate, but also buildings and monuments as varied in scale and type as prehistoric hillforts, Georgian town houses, rural churches, fishing lodges and textile mills.

Both volumes are comprehensively illustrated with specially commissioned colour photography.

Über Joseph Sharples

Joseph Sharplesstudied Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art. His first job was with the Victorian Society in Manchester,followed byeleven years ascurator at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Heis author of theLiverpoolcity volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides series andhas held research posts at the University of Liverpool on the architectural patronage of the citys nineteenth-century merchants.He has workedmost recently at Glasgow University as lead researcher on the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

David W. Walker took his degrees at the University of St Andrews, writing his doctoral thesis on Peddie & Kinnear. He worked for the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland before moving to the University of Warwick in 2005 to study the life and work of Sir Basil Spence. He is co-author ofAberdeenshire: North and Morayin this series.

Matthew Woodworthis a specialist in medieval architecture. Hereceived his M.A. from the Courtauld Institute, London and his PhD from Duke University, U.S.A, where he now teaches. He is co-author ofAberdeenshire: North and Morayin this series.

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Sku

GOR007416621

ISBN 13

9780300215557

ISBN 10

030021555X

Titel

Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen Joseph Sharples

Autor

Joseph Sharples

Serien

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Yale University Press

Datum

2015-11-21

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800

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