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An enlightening volume for scholars of this formative period in Scottish architecture.--W. S. Rodner, Tidewater Community College ""CHOICE"" This illuminating book is a magisterial achievement.--Deborah Howard, Cambridge University ""Planning Perspectives"" This well-illustrated volume is a treasure.--Benjamin Riley ""The New Criterion"" Well-illustrated with three-hundred images, many in color, this book contains an invaluable treasure-trove of archival and visual resources: maps, plans, paintings, drawings, engravings, letters, notebooks, and photographs. Its greatest strength, however, lies in the innovative approach to these sources, which the authors confidently mobilize to challenge accepted orthodoxies. [...] All in all, this substantial volume provides a spirited new resource that will surely stimulate vigorous conversation and excite further research in the field.--Wendy McGlashan ""Eighteenth-Century Scotland"" With the publication of The Architecture of Scotland 1660-1750, the longstanding and artificial cultural barrier between pre-1707 and post-1707 Scottish architecture has finally come crashing down, vividly highlighting the overpowering continuities within Scottish building and landscape design of the early modern era, and re-emphasising its strong links to contemporary continental Europe.-- ""Miles Glendinning, Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies""

"An enlightening volume for scholars of this formative period in Scottish architecture.--W. S. Rodner, Tidewater Community College ""CHOICE"" This illuminating book is a magisterial achievement.--Deborah Howard, Cambridge University ""Planning Perspectives"" This well-illustrated volume is a treasure.--Benjamin Riley ""The New Criterion"" Well-illustrated with three-hundred images, many in color, this book contains an invaluable treasure-trove of archival and visual resources: maps, plans, paintings, drawings, engravings, letters, notebooks, and photographs. Its greatest strength, however, lies in the innovative approach to these sources, which the authors confidently mobilize to challenge accepted orthodoxies. [...] All in all, this substantial volume provides a spirited new resource that will surely stimulate vigorous conversation and excite further research in the field.--Wendy McGlashan ""Eighteenth-Century Scotland"" With the publication of The Architecture of Scotland 1660-1750, the longstanding and artificial cultural barrier between pre-1707 and post-1707 Scottish architecture has finally come crashing down, vividly highlighting the overpowering continuities within Scottish building and landscape design of the early modern era, and re-emphasising its strong links to contemporary continental Europe.-- ""Miles Glendinning, Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies"""

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Dr John Lowrey is a senior lecturer in architectural history in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University. He is also Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Science. His research interests are mainly Scottish and mainly in the long eighteenth century, with a special interest and wide range of publications in the architecture and urban design of the Enlightenment period, the early classical country house of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and the designed landscape of Scotland. Dr Louisa Humm works at Historic Environment Scotland as Senior Casework Officer responsible for listed building consent work in Glasgow and other parts of South-West Scotland. Her interests include early eighteenth century gardens and designed landscapes, railway station architecture, and waterworks (particularly the Loch Katrine Scheme). Dr Aonghus MacKechnie is an architectural historian and an honorary lecturer of architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has researched and published on Renaissance-early modern architecture and culture in Scotland, Romanticism, and the history and culture of the Highlands. He is co-author of Scottish Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2004) and author of Carragh-chuimhne, Two Islay Monuments and Two Islay People: Hector Maclean and John Francis Campbell (Ileach, 2004). He is employed by Historic Environment Scotland.

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