The hero building : an architecture of Scottish national identity /
Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social...
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| 505 | 0 | |a The Hero Building -- Prototype : Hume and Glenfinnan Monuments -- Romantic Poet -- Enlightenment Poet : Early Burns Monuments -- Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West : Calton Hill in Edinburgh -- Wizard of the North : The Scott Monument -- Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument -- National Poet -- Poet of Humanity : Late Burns Monuments -- Aberration, Autism and Vanity : Hamilton Mausoleum and the McCaig Tower -- The Fallen : The Scottish National War Memorial -- A Post Modern Proof : Glasgow Developments -- Afterlife. | |
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| 520 | |a Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social aims and intentions translated into architectural form, and how effective were they? A tradition of building architectural monuments to commemorate national heroes developed as a distinctive feature of the Scottish built environment. As concrete manifestations of powerful social and political curr. | ||
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