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Author:   Dr Edward Gillin (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  H. Horatio Joyce (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781350159709

ISBN 10:   1350159700
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Acknowledgements List of figures and tables Introduction Part One. Defining experiences 1. Architecture and experience: Regimes of materiality in the nineteenth century - William Whyte Part Two. Producing experience 2. Touching heaven, crafting utopia: David Parr House in Cambridge -Ayla Lepine 3. Architecture of the mind: Imparting Californian identity through architectural experience on the early Stanford University campus - David Frazer Lewis 4. The architecture of art education: Provincial art schools in Britain, 1850-1914 - Geoffrey Tyack 5. Rooms and galleries: spaces of art in the nineteenth century - Valerie Mendelson Part 3. Designing experience 6. New York's Harvard House and the origins of an alumi culture in America - H. Horatio Joyce 7. Architectural acoustics: Thomas Roger Smith and the science of hearing buildings in nineteenth century Britain - Graeme Gooday 8. Powers of politics, scientific measurement and perception: Evaluating the performance of the Houses of Commons' first environmental system, 1852-4 - Henrik Schoenfeldt Part 4. Audiences and experience 9. Publicity and exclusivity: The experience of the public rooms of the London 'grand hotel' at the end of the nineteenth century - Emma Anderson 10. The fullest fountain of advancing civilization: Experiencing Anthony Trollope's House of Commons, 1852-82 - Edward Gillin 11. Building student bodies: College gymnasia and women's health in nineteenth century America - Caitlin DeClercq Part 5. Epilogue 12. Material, movement and memory: Some thoughts on architecture and experience in the age of mechanisation - Alex Bremner

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Edward Gillin is an Associate Research Fellow at the History Faculty, University of Oxford. H. Horatio Joyce is a doctoral student in history at the University of Oxford, and a PhD Scholar of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB).

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