Crystal Palace: London, 1851 Sir Joseph Paxton
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Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated Summary: This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century.oseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omiteferences to the past. Amid the historicist debates and "battle of thetyles" of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational andtraightforward.;His glass-and-iron palace for London's internationalxhibition was epoch-making in its construction. The 1800-foot-long bui [read more]
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Pub Date: 2001Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated Summary: This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century.oseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omiteferences to the past. Amid the historicist debates and "battle of thetyles" of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational andtraightforward.;His glass-and-iron palace for London's internationalxhibition was epoch-making in its construction. The 1800-foot-long bui [read more]
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9780714829258
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0714829250
Pub Date: 2001
Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century.oseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omiteferences to the past. Amid the historicist debates and "battle of thetyles" of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational andtraightforward.;His glass-and-iron palace for London's internationalxhibition was epoch-making in its construction. The 1800-foot-long buildingas designed to be assembled on site from factory-made parts; itsonstruction required 293,655 plates of glass and 24 miles of guttering. Theesulting masterpiece of prefabrication provoked a contemporary commentatoro remark: "the Crystal Palace is a revolution in architectural form, fromhich a new style will date".
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