Publication date: 8 July 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086937
Number of pages: 368
Number of illustrations: 162
Between Design and Making
Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760
Andrew Tierney (Editor), Melanie Hayes (Editor)
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a high point in the intersection between design and workmanship. Skilled artisans, creative and technically competent agents within their own field, worked across a wide spectrum of practice that encompassed design, supervision and execution, and architects relied heavily on the experience they brought to the building site. Despite this, the bridge between design and tacit artisanal knowledge has been an underarticulated factor in the architectural achievement of the early modern era.
Building on the shift towards a collaborative and qualitative analysis of architectural production, Between Design and Making re-evaluates the social and professional fabric that binds design to making, and reflects on the asymmetry that has emerged between architecture and craft. Combining analysis of buildings, archival material and eighteenth-century writings, the authors draw out the professional, pedagogical and social links between architectural practice and workmanship. They argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production, exploring the obscure centre ground of the creative process: the scribbled, sketched, hatched and annotated beginnings of design on the page; the discussions, arguments and revisions in the forging of details; and the grappling with stone, wood and plaster on the building site that pushed projects from conception to completion.
Praise for Between Design and Making
‘This collection of essays by an impressive set of scholars invites the reader to consider the relationships between architecture’s intellectual side and its physical one, relationships not unidirectional but often reciprocal, and the many personalities involved in seeing a building from conception through to construction.’
The New Criterion
‘Particularly sumptuous photographs illustrate Lydia Hamlett’s exploration of classical mural painting (mostly in British houses) between 1630 and 1730. Almost as striking are the mouldings, profiles and enrichments illustrated by Edward McParland in photographs taken from Dublin, across Britain, through Rome to St Petersburg. If you think yourself well-versed with classical mouldings, you may yet find the odd one here which could be unfamiliar!’
Context
List of figures
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Foreword
Christine Casey
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Between design and making: architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760
Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes
Part 1: Practice
1 Architect and mason-architect: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the development of the open-well suspended stone staircase in the 1630s
Gordon Higgott and Adam White
2 The Townesend family and the building of eighteenth-century Oxford
Geoffrey Tyack
3 Codes, conventions, circulations: drawings as an instrument of collaboration in the work of Nicolas Pineau
Bénédicte Gady
4 Architects and artificers: building management at Trinity College Dublin in the 1730s and 1740s
Melanie Hayes
5 Artisans and architecture in eighteenth-century Saxony
Nele Lüttmann
6 Between concept and construction: conservation insights into the building of Damer House
Mairtín D’Alton and Flora O’Mahony
Part 2: Representation
7 Architects and craftsmen: a theme with variations
Alistair Rowan
8 Classical profiles: the ‘alphabet of architecture’?
Edward McParland
9 Allegorising the space between architecture and craft: mural painting 1630–1730
Lydia Hamlett
10 Material, curiosity and performance: the reception of workmanship in early modern Britain and Ireland
Andrew Tierney
Index
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800086937
Number of pages: 368
Number of illustrations: 162
Publication date: 08 July 2024
PDF ISBN: 9781800086937
EPUB ISBN: 9781800086968
Hardback ISBN: 9781800086951
Paperback ISBN: 9781800086944
Andrew Tierney (Editor)
Andrew Tierney is Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Project Fellow (CRAFTVALUE) at TRIARC in Trinity College Dublin.
Melanie Hayes (Editor) 
Melanie Hayes is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Irish Research Council CRAFTVALUE project at Trinity College Dublin. She is author of The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its First Residents, 1720-80 (Four Courts Press, 2020).
‘This collection of essays by an impressive set of scholars invites the reader to consider the relationships between architecture’s intellectual side and its physical one, relationships not unidirectional but often reciprocal, and the many personalities involved in seeing a building from conception through to construction.’
The New Criterion
‘Particularly sumptuous photographs illustrate Lydia Hamlett’s exploration of classical mural painting (mostly in British houses) between 1630 and 1730. Almost as striking are the mouldings, profiles and enrichments illustrated by Edward McParland in photographs taken from Dublin, across Britain, through Rome to St Petersburg. If you think yourself well-versed with classical mouldings, you may yet find the odd one here which could be unfamiliar!’
Context
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