- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Reaktion Books (12 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861892748
- ISBN-13: 978-1861892744
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 21.8 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 875,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A wonderful assembly of archive material, ephemera, and modern photography."--"Architects'' Journal""" "" --Gillian Darley"Architects' Journal" (09/11/2006)
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The notion of taking a seaside holiday has only existed since the 18th century, when it was slowly becoming accepted that fresh air and sea water are good for health. Since then, a vast array of seaside resorts to suit all budgets have been developed in all areas of the world along with fairgrounds, piers, holiday camps, broadwalks, swimming pools, and casinos. In addition, the seaside has seen the development of a variety of distinctive architectures, from the smallest beach hut to the grandest of hotels. In "Designing the Seaside", Fred Gray provides a history of seaside architecture from the 18th century to the present day. He covers the formal and informal design processes involved in major buildings as well as ephemeral structures from piers and pavilions to resort parks and open spaces to shops selling candy floss. While the book's chief focus is Britain, it also contains numerous examples from the USA, Europe and the Far East. Seaside architecture often assumes iconic cultural status that define either specific resorts (the Blackpool Tower, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton) or the nature of a holiday by the coast(the pier and holiday camp). The development of the seaside has involved transforming existing landscapes. What were once perceived as marginal or valueless sites - cliffs, sand dunes and marsh - were reclaimed for resorts and often developed into good quality, even exotic towns. With the aid of photographs, architectural drawings, guidebooks, postcards, and railway and publicity posters, this book explores and delineates changing attitudes to holidaymaking and its setting. Gray looks at questions of taste, fashion, class and gender and particularly how the seaside became a hotbed for issues of morality and sexuality (from bathing machines to beauty pageants).
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The invention of the Western seaside as a site of leisure and pleasure almost three centuries ago went hand-in-hand with the development of a novel urban form - the seaside resort - and the emergence of a new pleasure architecture beside the sea. Read the first page
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