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The law courts: the architecture of George Edmund Street

David Bruce Brownlee c1984 © The MIT Press
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  • 9780262021999 (hardcover)
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  • Architectural History
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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
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  • Preface (page 9)
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  • Acknowledgments (page 11)
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  • Abbreviations (page 12)
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  • Chapter 1: George Edmund Street and High Victorian Architecture (page 15)
  • Chapter 2: Law Reform and Its Architecture (page 37)
    • The Legal Labyrinth (page 39)
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    • Complex, Slow, and Costly (page 40)
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    • Reform (page 43)
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    • A Palace for Justice; Sir John Soane (page 47)
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    • The Wilde and Buller Committtees; The Barry Plans (page 52)
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    • Further Site Debate; The Scott Plan (page 63)
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    • The Coleridge Commission (page 65)
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    • The First Legislative Season and the Abraham Plan (page 68)
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    • Setbacks and Gladstone's Magic (page 71)
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    • Successful Legislation; The Pennethorne Plan (page 74)
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    • The Royal Commission and the Competition Instructions (page 77)
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    • Lessons Architectural and Political (page 80)
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  • Chapter 3: The Competition (page 83)
    • The Politics of Electoral Reform (page 84)
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    • Designing the Competition; Judges and Judging (page 85)
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    • Selecting the Competitors (page 90)
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    • Preparation and Interpretation (page 98)
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    • Gothic Designs (page 102)
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    • Polarized Taste (page 104)
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    • Street's Design (page 138)
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    • The Decision of the Judges (page 150)
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    • The Decision is Abandoned (page 156)
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    • Appointment and Protest (page 162)
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  • Chapter 4: Revised Plans (page 171)
    • The Great Plan (page 172)
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    • Spiraling Costs (page 179)
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    • The Embankment (page 181)
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    • The Battle of the Sites (page 186)
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    • The Howard Street Site (page 190)
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    • Street's Plans of 1869 (page 192)
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    • Defeat (page 199)
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  • Chapter 5: The Final Plan (page 205)
    • Ayrton and the Office of Works (page 206)
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    • Fresh Designs for Carey Street (page 209)
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    • Toward the Final Plan (page 214)
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    • Resistance and Revision (page 224)
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    • Circumventing Ayrton: Final Revisions (page 228)
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    • Public Controversy (page 243)
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    • Economy (page 252)
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    • The Fall of Ayrton (page 255)
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    • The Tide of Taste (page 259)
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  • Chapter 6: Architect, Client, Builder, Workmen (page 265)
    • The Architect at Work (page 266)
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    • The Government as Client (page 273)
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    • The Architect's Pay (page 279)
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    • Pay for Surveyors (page 283)
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    • Responsibility for the Heating System (page 285)
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    • Builders (page 291)
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    • Building Workers (page 300)
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  • Chapter 7: Under Construction (page 307)
    • Construction (page 308)
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    • Modification of the Design (page 317)
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    • Fittings, Furniture, and Decoration (page 326)
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    • Heat and Light (page 346)
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    • Temple Bar (page 351)
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  • Epilogue (page 355)
  • Notes (page 375)
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  • Archival Materials (page 423)
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  • Selected Bibliography (page 423)
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  • Index (page 425)
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Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
BM 129.1007 (Feb. 1987): 129-130 http://www.jstor.org/stable/882803
JSAH 46.1 (Mar. 1987): 82-83 http://www.jstor.org/stable/990149
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