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Alexander "Greek" Thomson (Hardcover)

by Gavin Stamp (Author)

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Hardcover: 184 pages
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing; illustrated edition edition (5 Jul 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1856691616
ISBN-13: 978-1856691611
Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 24.6 x 1.9 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817-75) who lived and worked in Glasgow and was in practice there from 1849 produced a distintive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname "Greek". This book offers a visual guide to Thomson's work, featuring both archive photographs of buildings now demolished, drawings and Phil Sayer's specially commissioned photographs of extant works. An introductory biographical essay is followed by sections focusing on each of the main building types - churches, commercial buildings, terraces and tenemants, and villas - each introduced by a short essay. Thomson's decorative designs and furniture are also discussed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An exemplary photo-history of a Glasgow architect's work, 2 Dec 2000

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Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-75) can justly be regarded as Glasgow's 'other' world-famous architect, and this book shows why his architecture deserves to more widely known, even if Thomson's early death meant that what he sought to achieve failed to be continued by others.

This book was created to accompany the 1999 exhibition 'Alexander 'Greek' Thomson: the Unknown Genius' as part of the Glasgow: UK City of Architecture and Design programme. Its author, Dr Gavin Stamp, journalist, broadcaster and lecturer in architectural history at Glasgow School of Art, has long campaigned to have Thomson's life and work more widely known, appreciated and understood.

Thomson, born just outside Glasgow in 1817, not only championed the Greek Revival style, he pretty well reinvented it for the mid-19th century. Drawing on a wealth of other cultures - Assyrian, Hindu and Egyptian, as well as Greek - he made it 'work' in a city at the forefront of commercial and industrial technology, and needed new churches, warehouses, offices, tenements and villas, for its burgeoning population. Of Thomson's three awesome city churches, only one remains, but his commercial and domestic architecture remains as a monument to a truly visionary genius.

This large-format book, with its full-page photographs, both contemporary and newly taken by Phil Sayer, provides an introduction to the breadth of Thomson's creativity, and complements Ronald McFadzean's long out of print biography, 'The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson', as well as the more recent survey work, ''Greek' Thomson' (eds Stamp and McKinstry), and a book of his lectures and writings, 'The Light of Truth and Beauty', also edited by Gavin Stamp, as Chairman of The Alexander Thomson Society.

This book includes what is believed to be a complete list of Thomson's actual buildings and designs, as well as those which are believed to have been created by him or his firm, but for which evidence is missing.

'Alexander 'Greek' Thomson' is an excellent source-book for fans of Glasgow, for lovers of Victorian architecture, and for those seeking to find out how an architect reinterprets the past to meet the needs of the present.

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