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Georgian Town Houses and their Details: Butterworth Architecture Library of Period Detailing

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This book from the Architectural Press is a refreshingly focused look at the Georgian Architecture at London which combines current photography and illustrations with a period prints and other 18th (and some 19th) century design resources. For example, one gets visual information excerpted from Langley's 1747 London Prices of Bricklayers' Materials and Work (!) plus 20th century drafting which then demonstrates how the golden section was applied to window design reinforced with a current photograph of a London window.

This is not to say that the only joys of this book are that historical and geektastic. The images of handsome exteriors, doorways, facades, and street scenes are a joy to behold in and of themselves.

Released several times over the years in hardback and paperback, over 200 pp with something like over 300 b&w illustrations, Bibliography, and Street Index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part I Facades

- Introduction

- Illustrated Development

Part II Elements: Details

- Doors

- Windows

- Roofs

Part III: Elements: Materials

- Brick

- Stucco

- Stone

- Coade Stone

- Wood

- Metalwork

- Glass

- Paint

Part IV: Axonometric Summary

Bibliography

Street Index

This book from the Architectural Press is a refreshingly focused look at the Georgian Architecture at London which combines current photography and illustrations with a period prints and other 18th (and some 19th) century design resources. For example, one gets visual information excerpted from Langley's 1747 London Prices of Bricklayers' Materials and Work (!) plus 20th century drafting which then demonstrates how the golden section was applied to window design reinforced with a current photograph of a London window.

This is not to say that the only joys of this book are that historical and geektastic. The images of handsome exteriors, doorways, facades, and street scenes are a joy to behold in and of themselves.

Released several times over the years in hardback and paperback, over 200 pp with something like over 300 b&w illustrations, Bibliography, and Street Index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part I Facades

- Introduction

- Illustrated Development

Part II Elements: Details

- Doors

- Windows

- Roofs

Part III: Elements: Materials

- Brick

- Stucco

- Stone

- Coade Stone

- Wood

- Metalwork

- Glass

- Paint

Part IV: Axonometric Summary

Bibliography

Street Index