Building the Georgian City
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
James Ayres describes how builders in London developed the English terraced house and town centered building systems that influenced the architecture of Bath, Edinburgh, Dublin, and x contact Philadelphia. He takes us through the building processes craft by craft, from the work of the surveyors and laborers who established the foundations to the joiners and painters who finished the interiors. Ayres outlines the ways in which forms do not only follow functions but are also conditioned by materials and methods. He describes how, with the burgeoning industrialization of the second half of the eighteenth century, a separation emerged between making and designing, a division that led to the decline of the craftsman as designer. This led to a shift in power, a move from the empirical understanding of those involved in the processes of making to the theoretically based activities of architects.
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