The Edwardians and their Houses

The New Life of Old England

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
01 April 2020

Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science.

This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970s, and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. It also looks at the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders and villa builders, and traces the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period on the other. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and adds up to an original interpretation of British culture of the period.

By: Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781848222687
ISBN 10: 1848222688
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy Brittain-Catlin runs the Architecture Apprenticeship course at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture (The MIT Press, 2014), The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century (Spire Books, 2008) and Architecture: Learn how to Read a Building (Harper Collins, 2008).

Reviews for The Edwardians and their Houses: The New Life of Old England

'A fascinating study of Edwardian domestic architecture brings out its debt to both progressive politics and the romanticism of the age' - Charles Holland, Architecture Today 'rich, dense [...] will cause us to look at Edwardian architecture in an entirely new way.' - Jane Ridley, Literary Review 'Challenges any complacency one might have about the simplicity or sterility of the architectural scene just ahead of 'our period''. - Catherine Croft, C20 Society 'Timothy Brittain-Catlin, helped hugely by photographer Robin Forster and his sympathetic publishers, has authored an intelligent, scholarly and beautifully illustrated tome...His book is a wonderful thing, elegantly written and superbly illustrated: it celebrates agreeable human habitats designed by truly creative professionals that show up the dire, ugly, shameful mess being made nowadays.' - James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education 'Engagingly written and beautifully produced' - Decorative Arts Society