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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christine Stevenson |
| ISBN: | 0300085362 9780300085365 |
| OCLC Number: | 44516584 |
| Description: | viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: Chapter I Hospitality, monuments, and patriarchal medicine II -- The frets of luxury 14 -- Golden names * I8 -- Native American architecture 23 -- Chapter 2 Palaces and hospitals 31 -- Stately lodgings for the poor 32 -- Inhabitants and visitors 38 -- Discipline * 44 -- Religious military camps and the H6tel des Invalides * 46 -- Chelsea and the cell 53 -- Chapter 3 Publicity and public buildings 62 -- Restoration 62 -- Publication * 68 -- Greenwich 7I -- A 'Humour of Colonades' 79 -- Chapter 4 Looking at asylums 85 -- False taste and Christian modernity 86 -- Venetian windows * 89 -- Lunette windows * 97 -- Chapter 5 Raising the hospital, each performing his part io6 -- Useful expertise * I07 -- The charitable construction of the Edinburgh Royal -- Infirmary inI -- Protestant benevolence I21 -- Chapter 6 The appearances of the eighteenth-century -- civil hospital I25 -- Courtyard palaces * 126 -- Conversions, single files, and square plans I32 -- A college in a hospital I4I -- Letter-plans * I44 -- Appraisal I52 -- Chapter 7 The breath of life 55 -- Miasmata and other airs I58 -- Ships and Stephen Hales * I63 -- Chapter 8 Island hospitals 172 -- The early naval hospitals . 74 -- The royal hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth * 176 -- Remaking the Hotel-Dieu I85 -- Chapter 9 Ornament and the architect I95 -- Ornamental parts 96 -- Complaining and reforming I99 -- Natural architecture 205 -- Chapter io First principles 213 -- Radical charity 2I4 -- The dream of air 218 -- The planning of the Derby Infirmary 223 -- 'Architectural rotondities' 233. |
| Responsibility: | Christine Stevenson. |
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