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Wessex Project:

Thomas Hardy, Architect
  • ISBN-13: 9781848222502
  • Publisher: LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD
    Imprint: LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD
  • By Kester Rattenbury
  • Price: AUD $118.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/2018
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of architecture [AMX]
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Thomas Hardy's architectural career is not considered a success. Seen as a mere prelude to his literary output, it is most often summed up by reference to his ‘shockingly' suburban home, Max Gate. But this new book argues the opposite: that far from being incidental, Hardy's architectural thinking is integral to a full understanding of his life's work.
 
Reconstructed from the wealth of little-known drawings, photographs, experimental illustrations and built work he produced or oversaw, and an architecturally biased re-reading of his novels, this book sets out a startling new vision of Hardy's work, and how it has shaped England in fact and fiction.
 
It exposes the architectural thinking underlying Hardy's novels and shows how his imaginary realm Wessex can be seen as a forerunner of the experimental architectural projects of our own times – in which architects weave together design, description, polemic, and images to form highly developed and challenging unbuilt projects, published in books designed to change the way we see the world.
 
The book makes a compelling case for listing Hardy among the greatest of all conceptual architects, while recognising him as one of the most influential and active conservationists and architectural critics of all time.
 
Part 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, Performances
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