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Built from Below:

British Architecture and

the Vernacular

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its tradi-

tional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other

buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war

mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is

of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.

Increasingly, studies of what is genuinely vernacular in British archi-

tecture look beyond a distinct category of objects or techniques. Even the greatest

architecture can be better understood through heightened awareness of local or

indigenous forces, by emphasising use and underlying shifts in architecture’s social

meaning, and by understanding all architectural design as emerging from social

relationships tempered by individual creativity.

Presented in an essentially chronological sequence, from the medieval

to the post-war, diverse fresh viewpoints in the chapters of this book reinforce

understanding of how building design emerges not just from individual agency, that

is architects, but also from the collective traditions of society.

Peter Guillery is Senior Historian for the Survey of London, currently a part of English

Heritage. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (2004)

and of other books and articles on diverse aspects of London’s architectural history.

He is responsible for a forthcoming Survey of London volume on Woolwich.

Built from Below:

British Architecture and

the Vernacular

Edited by Peter Guillery

First published 2011

by Routledge

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Built from below: British architecture and the vernacular / edited by Peter Guillery.

p. cm.

Revised papers presented in their original form at the Society of

Architectural Historians of Great Britain annual symposium, held 17 May 2008 at

the Art Workers’ Guild in London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Architecture and society—Great Britain. 2. Vernacular architecture—Great

Britain. I. Guillery, Peter. II. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

Symposium. III. Title: British architecture and the vernacular.

NA2543.S6B775 2010

720.941—dc22

2010001979

ISBN 0-203-84770-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN13: 978-0-415-56532-5 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-56533-2 (pbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-84770-1 (ebk)

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