The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Thomas Hardy, Architect

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: 03/15/2018
ISBN: 9781848222502
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.90d