VICTORIAN PRIMITIVE by Miles Lewis (Second Hand Book)

SECOND HAND BOOK – EX LIBRARY

VICTORIAN PRIMITIVE  by Miles Lewis

Dr Miles Lewis is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Melbourne, a consultant in historical conservation matters, and the author of a number of articles and papers on questions of architectural history and conservation planning, His research interests centre about technical history, and especially those aspects of primitive building, nineteenth century prefabrication and colonial town planning which show how British and European practices were modified to meet the conditions of the Australian and other colonial environments. He has been largely responsible for the acceptance by the National Trust and by government authorities of buildings like mud huts and corrugated iron housed as important historical artefacts worthy of preservation and restoration.

Primitive buildings are the most basic evidence we have of the life and living conditions of our pioneers.

This book is a study in both the technology and the cultural history of our forebears. It looks at how they built their structures, how they derived their techniques from traditional methods of Britain and Europe, and how they developed purely colonial innovations such as the bark roof.

The numerous illustrations in these pages have been chosen, not merely for their pictorial qualities, but for the specific information they convey about this largely uncharged topic and they include some rare contemporary material from both local and overseas sources.

Specifications:

Condition: Good; Ex- library, front, spine have library stickers, inside front and back covers have library stickers and the library stamps; Content page have some notes on the page.

Publisher: Greenhouse Publications

Year: 1977

Format: Hard Copy

Pages: 87

ISBN: 0909104107

$15.00

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