Tudoresque architecture is viewed around the world as a symbol of British identity. This style has a powerful hold on the popular imagination, representing the idea of 'home' to British citizens, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Some love it, others hate it, but the Tudoresque is still being built, sometimes to give a house a settled, old-fashioned air, sometimes to supply exotica. While lots of people live in Tudor-style houses, very few know anything about their general history. Tudoresque is an insightful book that explores the origin of the style, tracing its roots to the antiquarian enthusiasms of the eighteenth century. It looks at the Tudoresque cottage style, which later influenced 1930s architecture, and the Tudor-style manor house, particularly favoured in the nineteenth century. While the style has been discouraged since the 1920s - and is especially reviled by modernists - it continues often to be chosen when design professionals do not have the upper hand. Contrary to common view, the authors show how Tudoresque is the mainstream of twentieth-century British architecture and a mass phenomenon. Whether 'mock Tudor', 'Tudorbethan' or 'Tudor Revival', they are important not so much because they are great architecture, but because they are everywhere. Illustrated with more than 200 years of Tudoresque buildings, and including examples from Britain, America, India and East Asia, this perceptive and knowledgeable book will enlighten anyone with a curiosity about the subject or about the house in which they live.
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'It's a good thing that there are cultural historians around to point out the hidden strangeness of our streets. Andrew Ballantyne and Andrew Law have given deep thought to the question of why Tudor appeals.'
--New Statesman
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Andrew Law lectures in Town Planning at Newcastle University. He is a sociologist with an interest in heritage and conservation groups. His work has been published in Architectures: Modernism and After (2004).
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By Devra Kay
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This book has an unexpected and invaluable practical use as I discovered this week. It has actually helped to save a fine Tudoresque pub called The White Bear which stands in a conservation area in Hendon, London. The building was bought by a developer with the sole purpose of knocking it down to build modern flats among Grade II listed and other protected buildings. The local planning committee was presented by local residents with this unique, authoritative and very readable book in support of the worthiness of the architecture of The White Bear, which is a good example of Tudoresque, but which the developer insultingly described as being 'only mock-Tudor'.
So the precedent is established for anyone who wishes to save a good old Tudoresque pub or other Tudoresque building from extinction. Get this book. It also provides a fascinating history of this very British, much-loved style that continues to be built and there are some great pictures. Thank you Andrew Ballantyne and Andrew Law. The White Bear lives on.
So the precedent is established for anyone who wishes to save a good old Tudoresque pub or other Tudoresque building from extinction. Get this book. It also provides a fascinating history of this very British, much-loved style that continues to be built and there are some great pictures. Thank you Andrew Ballantyne and Andrew Law. The White Bear lives on.
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