Industrial Britain

An Architectural History

Hubert J. Pragnell

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English

Batsford
08 July 2021

Architecture; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; History

Industrial Britain details the history of industrial architecture in Britain by architectural historian and artist, Hubert Pragnell.

A fascinating insight into Britain's industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated throughout with line drawings. Industrial Britain takes a catholic view of its subject, going back far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution to cover the water mills and oast houses of agricultural production, and including too the buildings and engineering projects associated with the distribution of manufactured goods - docks, canals, railways and warehouses.

Dividing its immense subject by purpose, from fire, forges and furnaces to the architecture of the Railway Age, temples of mass production to dock and harbour buildings, Industrial Britain tells the story of development and ultimate decline. As manufacturing has been increasingly supplanted by services in contemporary Britain, new uses have be found for at least some of Britain's great industrial buildings - not least as containers for art and heritage.

By: Hubert J. Pragnell
Imprint: Batsford
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 180mm,
ISBN: 9781849946131
ISBN 10: 1849946132
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hubert Pragnell studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford. He taught art at the Kings School, Canterbury. He is the author of Industrial Britain (Batsford) and a number of other works on architecture. He lives in Canterbury, Kent.

Reviews for Industrial Britain: An Architectural History

‘Not only a record of the buildings that tell the story of a rapidly industrialising nation but a testament to their importance in the history of British architecture. … A timely reminder of both our continued reliance on heavy industry and the threatened heritage of Britain’s industrial landscapes’ -- Inigo