Hero Building

An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

Autor: Johnny Rodger

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments wer...

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Autor

Johnny Rodger

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2015

Stránok

242

EAN

9781472452719

ISBN

1472452712

Enbook ID

09240530

Vydavateľ

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Hmotnosť

692

Rozmery

178 x 253 x 20

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Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social aims and intentions translated into architectural form, and how effective were they? A tradition of building architectural monuments to commemorate national heroes developed as a distinctive feature of the Scottish built environment. As concrete manifestations of powerful social and political currents of thought and opinion, these hero buildings make important statements about identity, the nation and social history. The book examines this architectural culture by studying a prominent selection of buildings, such as the Burns monuments in Alloway, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, the Edinburgh Scott Monument, the Glenfinnan Monument and the Wallace Monument in Stirling. They give testimony to how a variety of architectural forms and styles can be adapted through time to bear particular social messages of symbolic weight. This tradition, which literally allows us to dwell on important social issues of the past, has been somewhat neglected in serious architectural history and heritage, and indeed one of the main monuments has already been destroyed. By raising awareness of this rich architectural and social heritage, while analysing and interpreting the buildings in their historical context, this book makes an exciting and original scholarly contribution to the current debates on identity and nationality taking place in Scotland and the wider UK.

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