The Houses of Parliament / edited by M. H. Port.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Port, M. H. (Michael Harry)

Series:

Studies in British art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parliament Buildings (Great Britain).

Gothic revival (Architecture)--England--London.

Gothic revival (Architecture).

Westminster Palace (London, England).

London (England)--Buildings, structures, etc.

London (England).

England--London.

Physical Description:

xxi, 347 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) by Yale University Press, 1976.

Contents:

Introduction / M.H. Port

The old Houses of Parliament / M.H. Port

The Houses of Parliament competition / M.H. Port

Barry and Pugin : a collaboration / Phoebe B. Stanton

Select committees and estimates : the collaboration continued / Phoebe B. Stanton and M.H. Port

Problems of building in the 1840's / M.H. Port

The collaboration renewed : Barry and Pugin, 1844-52 / Phoebe B. Stanton

Barry's last years : the new palace in the 1850's / M.H. Port

The completion of the new palace, 1860-70 / M.H. Port

The techniques of the building / Denis Smith

The building services / Denis Smith

The palace of history and art / M.H. Port, Benedict Read, John Christian, Shirley Bury, T.S.R. Boase

Furniture / Clive Wainwright

Mother of Parliaments? : architectural influences from the new palace / Priscilla Metcalf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300020228 :

OCLC:

2572927