A History of the Church through its Buildings, by Allan Doig James Stevens Curl has reservations about a broad overview of the development of Christianity through its architecture James Stevens Curl 2月 22日
The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England, by Timothy Brittain-Catlin James Stevens Curl is delighted by a comprehensive study of an often underrated architectural era James Stevens Curl 7月 27日
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance, by Ita Mac Carthy James Stevens Curl considers the elusive notion of ‘grace’ and how it impregnated the art of the Renaissance and beyond James Stevens Curl 3月 19日
The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities, by Nir Haim Buras James Stevens Curl is thrilled by a guide to how we can recover the essential principles of creating liveable cities James Stevens Curl 2月 20日
Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece, by William E. Wallace James Stevens Curl is impressed by a detailed account of one of the world’s most celebrated buildings James Stevens Curl 1月 2日
Traditions of Death and Burial, by Helen Frisby James Stevens Curl enjoys a brief survey of changing British attitudes to the saying of final farewells James Stevens Curl 9月 5日
Culture in Nazi Germany, by Michael H. Kater James Stevens Curl has reservations about an account of the art produced under totalitarianism James Stevens Curl 6月 20日
Vienna 1900 Complete, by Christian Brandstätter, Daniela Gregori and Rainer Metzger; translated by David H. Wilson James Stevens Curl relishes the extraordinary visual splendours of a fin-de-siècle creative explosion James Stevens Curl 3月 21日
Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, by Lucia Allais Book of the week: James Stevens Curl is impressed by a marriage of modern architecture and monument preservation James Stevens Curl 12月 6日
Baroque between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939, by Jane Stevenson James Stevens Curl on a camp counter-culture that injected whimsy and vitality into art and design James Stevens Curl 6月 7日
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, by Mari Lending Models and casts helped transmit knowledge of building, design and art, says James Stevens Curl James Stevens Curl 3月 8日
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space, by William Whyte James Stevens Curl on an eloquent plea for an understanding of the past through built fabric James Stevens Curl 1月 11日
The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization, by Leslie Sklair James Stevens Curl on a study of symptoms of consumer culture and those who built them James Stevens Curl 11月 16日
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment James Stevens Curl 8月 24日
Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy, by Hannah Malone James Stevens Curl heaps praise on a fascinating study and pays tribute to the scholarly tenacity that it is built on James Stevens Curl 7月 6日
Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott, by Gavin Stamp James Stevens Curl on an architect who designed some of the great Victorian buildings but was unjustly maligned James Stevens Curl 11月 12日
Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936, by Kate Nichols James Stevens Curl on a well-researched study of the display of and visitor reactions to exhibits James Stevens Curl 6月 18日
