Lost Victorian Britain
by Gavin Stamp
Architecture, great britainGreat britain, history, 19th centuryGreat britain, history, 20th centuryArchitecture, conservation and restorationArchitectureHistoryPictorial worksConservation and restoration
This book chronicles - and deplores - the catastrophic swathe cut through our architectural heritage by the twentieth century's sustained antipathy to the nineteenth, as well as offering an offbeat history of Victorian architecture, and its belated re-evaluation, entirely through buildings that have disappeared.
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Book data: Open Library