Victorians Revalued: What The Twentieth Century Thought Of Nineteenth-Century Architecture
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Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design. Edited by Rosemary Hill, Colin Cunningham and Aileen Reid. In the second issue of ‘Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design’ we look at what the twentieth century thought of nineteenth-century architecture. Now out of print. Until the 1960s Victorian buildings were routinely demolished, decried as 'monstrosities' or at best enjoyed for their amusement value - the 'Victoriana tendency' of Lytton Strachey. By the beginning of the twenty-first century their beauty and utility were so generally accepted that the reopening of St Pancras International was greeted ecstatically. That this shift in taste occurred in the half century after the The Victorian Society was founded is no coincidence. This second volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design marks the 50th anniversary of that event by surveying the Society's influence and other aspects of Victorian architecture's rehabilitation.
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Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design. Edited by Rosemary Hill, Colin Cunningham and Aileen Reid. In the second issue of ‘Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design’ we look at what the twentieth century thought of nineteenth-century architecture. Now out of print. Until the 1960s Victorian buildings were routinely demolished, decried as 'monstrosities' or at best enjoyed for their amusement value - the 'Victoriana tendency' of Lytton Strachey. By the beginning of the twenty-first century their beauty and utility were so generally accepted that the reopening of St Pancras International was greeted ecstatically. That this shift in taste occurred in the half century after the The Victorian Society was founded is no coincidence. This second volume of Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design marks the 50th anniversary of that event by surveying the Society's influence and other aspects of Victorian architecture's rehabilitation.
