Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

Dr John Lowrey is a senior lecturer in architectural history in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University. He is also Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Science. His research interests are mainly Scottish and mainly in the long eighteenth century, with a special interest and wide range of publications in the architecture and urban design of the Enlightenment period, the early classical country house of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and the designed landscape of Scotland. Dr Louisa Humm works at Historic Environment Scotland as Senior Casework Officer responsible for listed building consent work in Glasgow and other parts of South-West Scotland. Her interests include early eighteenth century gardens and designed landscapes, railway station architecture, and waterworks (particularly the Loch Katrine Scheme). Dr Aonghus MacKechnie is an architectural historian and an honorary lecturer of architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has researched and published on Renaissance-early modern architecture and culture in Scotland, Romanticism, and the history and culture of the Highlands. He is co-author of Scottish Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2004) and author of Carragh-chuimhne, Two Islay Monuments and Two Islay People: Hector Maclean and John Francis Campbell (Ileach, 2004). He is employed by Historic Environment Scotland.

An enlightening volume for scholars of this formative period in Scottish architecture.

• SETTING THE SCENEIntroductionAonghus MacKechnie1. Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland.Allan MacinnesCLASSICISM AND THE CASTLE2. The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic SignifierIan Campbell 3. Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in The Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 UnionAonghus MacKechnie4. Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the CastleJohn Lowrey5. A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and RomanceIain Gordon BrownTHE BUSINESS OF BUILDING, TRADES, MATERIALS AND PATTERN BOOKS6. Scottish Ironwork 1660-1730Ali Davey and Aonghus MacKechnie7. The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesAnna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo8. Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: an Englishman and the best plaisterer that was ever yet in ScotlandWilliam Napier 9. Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate BookJames LegardTHE COUNTRY HOUSE10. The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645-1731) within the European ContextCristina González-Longo11. From England to Scotland in 1701: The Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith PalaceSally Jeffery12. Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady NairneClarisse Godard Desmarest 13. Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of SaltounRory Lamb14. Mannerism in the work of John Douglas in Eighteenth Century Scotland.Dimitris TheodossopoulosGARDENS15. ‘The inexpressible need of enclosing and planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland 1660-1750Christopher Dingwall16. The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth CenturyMarilyn Brown17. Alexander Edward’s European TourJohn Lowrey18. William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland 1720-1745Louisa Humm19. Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian retreat at Arniston?Nick Haynes URBAN ARCHITECTURE20. Town Housing and Planning: McGill, Gibbs and Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow Anthony Lewis21. Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth Century University LibrariesDeborah Mays22. Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile CommunitiesGiovanna Guidicini23. Living Horizontally: The Origin of the Tenement in Paris and EdinburghClarisse Godard Desmarest24. William Adam’s Public BuildingsDavid W WalkerCONCLUSION25. Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’?Ranald MacInnesAbbreviations; End Notes; Index