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Oxford Geoffrey Tyack (Director, Director, Stanford University Centre in Oxford)

Oxford By Geoffrey Tyack (Director, Director, Stanford University Centre in Oxford)

Summary

Chronicles the architectural development of Oxford - both University and City - from its origins to the late twentieth century, explaining the idiosyncracies of Oxford's architectural history, and placing the buildings within their historical context.

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Oxford: An Architectural Guide by Geoffrey Tyack (Director, Director, Stanford University Centre in Oxford)

Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century down to the present. Geoffrey Tyack chronicles the architectural development of Oxford-both University and City-from its origins to the late twentieth century, explaining the idiosyncracies of Oxford's architectural history, and placing the buildings within their historical context. His approach is chronological, and his emphasis on what can actually be seen. Although many books have been written about individual buildings and various aspects of Oxford architecture, no book of this kind has been published for many years.

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How and why the college came to be one of the most adventurous and successful patrons of modern architecture in Oxford is the principal subject of Geoffrey Tyack's thorough and revealing study. * Twentieth Century Society Newsletter *

About Geoffrey Tyack (Director, Director, Stanford University Centre in Oxford)

Geoffrey Tyack is Director of the Stanford University Centre in Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Origins: 900-1350 ; 2. The Later Middle Ages ; 3. From Reformation to Restoration ; 4. The Age of Classicism ; 5. A Century of Growth: 1750-1850 ; 6. Victorian Gothic ; 7. Into the Twentieth Century ; 8. From Modernism to Post-Modernism ; Walks ; Glossary ; Acknoweldgements ; Index

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GOR001757091
9780198174233
0198174233
Oxford: An Architectural Guide by Geoffrey Tyack (Director, Director, Stanford University Centre in Oxford)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19980319
384
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