Unbuilt Oxford
By: Howard Colvin.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 198
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736; University of Oxford -- Buildings -- Designs and plans -- History
Description: Shows and describes the plans for museums, college buildings, and apartments suggested, but never built, and discusses how they would have fit into Oxford's great architectural setting.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 188-195.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: vi; label: I. Gothic Uncertainties
title: 1; label: II. Retarded Renaissance
title: 7; label: III. The Limits of a Private Purse
title: 13; label: IV. Dr. Clarke's Portfolios
title: 23; label: V. Hawksmoor's Oxford
title: 60; label: VI. Indecision at Magdelen
title: 78; label: VII. Pugin and the Battle for Balliol
title: 105; label: VIII. The Two Museums
title: 117; label: IX. The Jacobean Revival
title: 135; label: X. Oxford and the Modern Movement
title: 158; label: Sources and Bibliography
title: 188; label: Index
title: 196