Combining analysis of buildings, archival material, and eighteenth-century writings, editors Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes re-evaluate the social and professional fabric binding design to the act of making and reflect on the asymmetry between architecture and craft. They argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production that explores the scribbled and annotated beginnings of design; the debates and revisions in forging details; and the grappling with building materials that pushed projects from conception to completion.
368 pages | 162 color halftones | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2024
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Foreword
Christine Casey
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Between design and making: architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760
Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes
Part 1: Practice
1 Architect and mason-architect: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the development of the open-well suspended stone staircase in the 1630s
Gordon Higgott and Adam White
2 The Townesend family and the building of eighteenth-century Oxford
Geoffrey Tyack
3 Codes, conventions, circulations: drawings as an instrument of collaboration in the work of Nicolas Pineau
Bénédicte Gady
4 Architects and artificers: building management at Trinity College Dublin in the 1730s and 1740s
Melanie Hayes
5 Artisans and architecture in eighteenth-century Saxony
Nele Lüttmann
6 Between concept and construction: conservation insights into the building of Damer House
Mairtín D’Alton and Flora O’Mahony
Part 2: Representation
7 Architects and craftsmen: a theme with variations
Alistair Rowan
8 Classical profiles: the ‘alphabet of architecture’?
Edward McParland
9 Allegorising the space between architecture and craft: mural painting 1630–1730
Lydia Hamlett
10 Material, curiosity and performance: the reception of workmanship in early modern Britain and Ireland
Andrew Tierney
Index