The Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 / / Aonghus MacKechnie, Louisa Humm, John Lowrey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Humm, Louisa,; Lowrey, John,; MacKechnie, Aonghus,
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Marilyn,; Campbell, Ian,; Davey, Ali,; Dingwall, Christopher,; Godard Desmarest, Clarisse,; González-Longo, Cristina,; Gordon Brown, Iain,; Guidicini, Giovanna,; Haynes, Nick,; Humm, Louisa,; Jeffery, Sally,; Lamb, Rory,; Legard, James,; Lewis, Anthony,; Lowrey, John,; MacInnes, Ranald,; MacKechnie, Aonghus,; Macinnes, Allan I.,; Mays, Deborah,; Napier, William,; Serafini, Anna,; Theodossopoulos, Dimitris,; Walker, David W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.) :; 300 colour illustrations

A rich, revisionist overview of Scotland’s early classical architectureSteps decisively away from the ‘Scottish castle’ genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland’s first well-documented grouping of major architects – including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations This architectural survey covers one of Scotland’s most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of ‘the Scottish castle’ and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- I Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- 1 Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland -- II Classicism and the Castle -- 2 The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic Signifier -- 3 Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in the Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 Union -- 4 Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the Castle -- 5 A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and Romance -- III The Business of Building, Trades, Materials and Pattern Books -- 6 Scottish Ironwork, 1670–1730 -- 7 Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: ‘An Englishman and the Best Plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland’ -- 8 The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 9 Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate Book -- IV The Country House -- 10 The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645–1731) within the European Context -- 11 From England to Scotland in 1701: the Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith Palace -- 12 Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenthcentury Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne -- 13 Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun -- 14 Mannerism in the Work of John Douglas in Eighteenthcentury Scotland -- V Gardens -- 15 ‘The Inexpressible Need of Inclosing and Planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland, 1660–1750 -- 16 The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth Century -- 17 Alexander Edward’s European Tour, 1701–2 -- 18 William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland, 1720–45 -- 19 William Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian retreat at Arniston? -- VI Urban Architecture -- 20 Town Housing and Planning: Alexander McGill, James Gibbs and Allan Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow -- 21 Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth-century University Libraries -- 22 Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities -- 23 Living Horizontally: the Origin of the Tenement in Paris and Edinburgh -- 24 William Adam’s Public Buildings -- VII Conclusion -- 25 Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’? -- Notes -- Index