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"Architectural models made nineteenth-century London. As the city grew it became the global centre of finance, industrial capitalism, and the British Empire. New buildings, urban spaces, and networks of infrastructure were demanded, constructed, and rebuilt. Models were a crucial medium of communication that enabled architects, politicians, and the wider public to conceive the city's expansion of buildings and spaces. Based on extensive research in archives, museums, and period publications, Modelling the Metropolis addresses not just architectural models but also an eclectic range of images and objects - from technical products to sculptures, diagrams to engravings, maps to photographs - that dramatize the politics and aesthetics of Victorian London. "--Back cover. Introduction 7 The Public Sphere 21 Competitions and the pursuit of truth 29 A new model for London 42 The Commons 49 Models as a mode of inquiry 58 The Courtroom 65 Producing legal models 69 The Exhibition 75 Edward Schroeder Prior and the model as ‘feeling’ 85 The Model-makers’ Workshop 93 From drawings to models 100 Accidents, Empire, and Beer: John Thorp and his workshop 102 The University 119 Model-making handbooks

Author

Matthew Wells; gta Verlag

Publisher

E T H Honggerberg Zurich Ausstellungsorganisation des Institutes fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783856764357

Subjects

Art, Arts