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Review: Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes , by Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire

2010; University of California Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2010.69.1.121

2150-5926

Geoffrey Tyack,

Historical Influence and Diplomacy

Book Review| March 01 2010 Review: Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes, by Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire; Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, 338 pp., 288 illus., 230 plans. £50, ISBN 9780300126457 Geoffrey Tyack Geoffrey Tyack Kellogg College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2010) 69 (1): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.1.121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Geoffrey Tyack; Review: Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes, by Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2010; 69 (1): 121–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.1.121 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search For Le Corbusier (Towards a New Architecture, ed. F. Etchells, 1927) "the plan is the generator," and this belief lies behind Gomme and Maguire's long and idiosyncratic book. Plans do come before elevations, and anyone seriously wishing to understand domestic architecture should study plans before being seduced by the blandishments of style and ornament. The focus of their study is the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the loose domestic planning of the Middle Ages gave way in Britain to a more compact system that reached its apogee in the forty years or so after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. This is not a new field of inquiry. Domestic planning looms large in Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House (1978) and his Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House (1983), and more recently there have been Nicholas Cooper's perceptive and wide-ranging Houses of the Gentry... You do not currently have access to this content.