Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century : Buildings and Society in the Modern Age.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Defining experience -- 1. Architecture and experience: Regimes of materiality in the nineteenth century -- Part Two: Producing experience -- 2. Touching heaven, crafting utopia: David Parr House in Cambridge -- 3. Architecture of the mind: Imparting Californian identity through architectural experience on the early Stanford University campus -- 4. The architecture of art education: Provincial art schools in Britain, 1850-1914 -- 5. Rooms and galleries: Spaces of art in the nineteenth century -- Part Three: Designing experience -- 6. New York's Harvard House and the origins of an alumni culture in America -- 7. Architectural acoustics: Thomas Roger Smith and the science of hearing buildings in nineteenth-century Britain -- 8. Powers of politics, scientific measurement and perception: Evaluating the performance of the Houses of Commons' first environmental system,1852-4 -- Part Four: Audiences and experience -- 9. Publicity and exclusivity: The experience of the public rooms of the London 'grand hotel' at the end of the nineteenth century -- 10. 'The fullest fountain of advancing civilization':Experiencing Anthony Trollope's House of Commons, 1852-82 -- 11. Building student bodies: College gymnasia and women's health in nineteenth-century America -- Part Five: Epilogue -- 12. Material, movement and memory: Some thoughts on architecture and experience in the age of mechanization -- Notes -- Index.

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