Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect

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Bol As an architect, Thomas Hardy is known only for his red-brick suburban villa, Max Gate. This book takes a wider view, arguing that architects do not just make buildings, but use other forms to change how we see and use the world. Illustrated with a wealth of his little-known drawings, it shows how Hardy developed Wessex, just as an architect would. Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory. The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect. This book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect. It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation – which would still be radical a century later. Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day.

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As an architect, Thomas Hardy is known only for his red-brick suburban villa, Max Gate. This book takes a wider view, arguing that architects do not just make buildings, but use other forms to change how we see and use the world. Illustrated with a wealth of his little-known drawings, it shows how Hardy developed Wessex, just as an architect would. Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But his first career in architecture has been seen as perverse or contradictory. The assumption has been: he changed career because he wasn't much of an architect. This book is the first to study Hardy from an architectural perspective, and it offers startling insights into a man who never stopped thinking, writing and working as an architect. It reveals a biting commentator on the architectural debates of his day; the most influential conservation writer there has ever been; and his experiments in architectural representation – which would still be radical a century later. Linking writing, maps, images, polemic and buildings, Wessex appears as a remarkable, entirely architectural project that shapes the way we see, imagine and build England to this day.


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