Brideshead and the Tower Blocks
Patrick Wright, 2 June 1988
Home: A Short History of an Idea
by Witold Rybczynski.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £12.95, March 1988,0 434 14292 1 Show More
by Witold Rybczynski.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £12.95, March 1988,
“... was a moving force behind the National Trust’s new Country House Scheme, recommending James Lees-Milne for the job of historic buildings secretary and also helping to define the aesthetic which would be built up around the preserved country house. In English Country Houses (1941) she started to theorise the English country house in terms that would prove ... ”