Showing Scottish Architecture (World of Art) by Miles Glendinning

Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 224 in Publisher: THAMES & HUDSON in Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! A comprehensive survey of Scottish buildings from prehistory to the called the present. Scotland is unique among smaller European countries in the distinctiveness and richness of its architectural heritage. dominated from the earliest times by monumental stone buildings. Prehistoric tombs and houses. early Christian. Romanesque. and Gothic churches. medieval and Renaissance castles and palaces were followed from the seventeenth century onward. under the stimulus of burgeoning wealth and power. by buildings reflecting a dazzling range of stylistic movements and forceful designers. including world-renowned names such as Robert Adam. Alexander Thomson. and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. When artistic reaction came in the twentieth centur...