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Paperback: 588 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; 9th Revised edition edition (20 Oct 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0300058861
ISBN-13: 978-0300058864
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars reliable overview, 13 Jun 2007

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This book, for many years now, the standard text, is always readable and generally reliable. Not much of interest architecturally speaking, passed by Summerson's eye, without him noting it. In an age like ours, when plain speaking scholarship is long gone, probably due to lack of new material than lack of talent, this book is likely to offend due to its bland format and refusal to delve beyond the surface. But this lack of depth is actually its strength as a text. If you want a book on the subject without frills, this will be the one for you. As a historian and not an architect, Summerson sometimes gets caught up in details that architects would be unlikely to find useful, but nevertheless, even those bits are informative.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Elitist and unreadable., 14 Jan 2007

By	William Vigar "Will Vigar" (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My two main problems with this book are that it is elitist and largely unreadable, which is tiresome as it's one of the core texts needed for the course I'm doing in Country House and Museum Studies. Summerson was clearly very into Architecture and obviously knew his stuff but the downside of this is that he seems to have no time for anyone who doesn't know as much as he does. The book, in the main, is a list of which buildings were built when, by whom and a list of decorative works that adorn each building (something you could have done in excel and made it more interesting). When he does elaborate, for example when citing favourite and/or influential architects (noticably Jones, Pratt and the like) he does so in such a way that it strips any iota of enthusiam you may have had for the subject. His use of architectural language, though appropriate, is unexplained and I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't need either a primer or and architectural dictionary to read what is supposed to be a basic overview of a subject. A simple glossary would have been an enormous help. The book is supposed to be one you can learn from and in having to reference many other books to understand what he's talking about, it fails completely. The man is clearly an architect, not a writer.

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