| Title |
On G. E. Street's Theory of Constructional Polychromy |
| Keywords |
Gothic revivalism ; architectural polychromy ; George Edmund Street ; architectural color |
| Abstract |
This paper is the third part of the thesis on architectural polychromy revivalism in the nineteenth century. George Edmund Street stood at the beginning of one of the successful careers of the Gothic Revival. At First, he was more prolific with theories than with building, with a kind of architectural journalism, opinions and current problem the distinction between village and town churches, the use of color in churches, and the subject of foreign architecture. ??But more than anything else Street was fascinated by materials and their colors, as the title of "Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages"??indicated. Much of his final chapter is devoted to 'Italian Brickwork' and 'color in construction'. I focused my attention on two points in this paper. I intend to describe the process of creation on Street's theory of constructional polychromy, and to reconstruct the characteristics of his theory of constructional polychromy through to discover his architectural theory. |