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OverviewThomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory. The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect. This book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect. It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation – which would still be radical a century later. Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kester RattenburyPublisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9781848222502ISBN 10: 1848222505 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 18 January 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart 1: VISION. 1: Not Much of an Architect; 2: A Kind of Education; 3: Ways of Seeing: the Early Novels; 4: Doubt and Experiment: 'Oddities and Failures'; 5: Unsafe Pictures: The Return of the Native; 6: Different Constructions: Built and Imagined Part 2: REALISATION. 7: The Invention of Wessex; 8: The Character of the Streets: The Mayor of Casterbridge; 9: A Little Influence: The Wessex Campaign; 10: Building Up: Max Gate Phase 1; 11: How That Book Rustles: The Woodlanders; 12: Wessex Copyright: Names and Maps; 13: Stepping Out: Authored and Anonymous Part 3: RECONSTRUCTION. 14: Time and Place; 15: Troublesome Land: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; 16: Obstructed Visions: Jude the Obscure; 17: Horizons Open: Poems and Photographs; 18: Building On: Max Gate Extended; 19: An Imaginary Story: The Conservation of Wessex; 20: A Partial Completion: Plays, Poetry, PerformancesReviewsRattenbury has produced in this book a convincing argument to support her bold thesis that Thomas Hardy never gave up architecture. --Tony Fincham, The Thomas Hardy Society Journal Kester Rattenbury, an architectural journalist and teacher, takes Beatty's estimate much further, claiming that Hardy was 'amongst the greatest of all conceptual architects, ' and 'the greatest conservation thinker and campaigner of all time.' --Peter Howell, The Art Newspaper .. .the architecture critic Kester Rattenbury has set out to revise Hardy's reputation --Architectura Viva Kester Rattenbury argues in The Wessex Project (Lund Humphries) that his thinking remained that of an architect--and a radical one at that--even when he was writing his novels. --Rowan Moore, The Guardian The Wessex Project is filled with thoughtful and enriching descriptions of buildings--their meanings, histories and resonances. --Ralph Pite, Literary Review Thinking like an architect Thomas Hardy's ideas of structure and restoration. --Interview, The Times Literary Supplement Kester Rattenbury [...] takes what is usually seen as a footnote of Hardy's life and puts it at the centre. Again, the privilege is that of looking into a great mind. - Rowan Moore, The Observer's Best Books of 2018 Handsomely designed and generously illustrated, it also has the merit of being a visual pleasure to read, a bonus not always to be found in these days of increasingly meagre book-production values. - Keith Wilson, English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920 A must read for anyone with an interest in Hardy. - Tony Fincham, The Thomas Hardy Journal This is a thought-provoking and elegantly written book of value to all students of architecture, conservation and nineteenth - and early twentieth-century visual culture. - Jeremy Musson, The Victorian This is a marvellous book, recommended to anyone interested in architecture or conservation, and it will make readers eager to take another, more informed, look at Hardy's novels. - Peter Parker, A Magazine for RIBA Friends of Architecture Author InformationKester Rattenbury is Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster and as an architectural writer contributes to numerous national and international magazines and newspapers. In 2003, she set up EXP research group at Westminster, with acclaimed projects including the Archigram Archival Project and Supercrit series. Her publications include This Is Not Architecture (2002) Architects Today (2006, with Robert Bevan and Kieran Long), and the Supercrit Books series (2007–, with Samantha Hardingham). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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