Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, 1916-1939 Tapa blanda - 1997

Liverpool University Press. Used - Very Good. 1997. Paperback. May have a remainder mark. Very Good.

Liverpool Univeristy Press, 1997. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, pages. In 1916 Thomas Wallis founded a new practice, Wallis, Gilbert & Partner, primarily to collaborate with an American company in the design of factories to be constructed of reinforced concrete. Designing factories was not then popular among architects and many manufacturers regarded the employment of an architect a wanton extravagance. Wallis's move could be seen as a reckless gamble, but his and his partners' subsequent achievements suggest that his choice had been well considered; some of the best known inter-war industrial building - Firestone, Hoover, The Gramophone Company, Glaxo Laboratories - were their work. In Form and Fancy, Dr Skinner looks first at the biographical background of Wallis, at the history and organisation of the partnership he founded, and at the many factors that contributed to its reputation in the inter-war years. She then offers a perspective on architectural thought and activity in that… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good.

Liverpool University Press, 1997-09-01. Paperback. Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.