John B Hilling: 2 books
The Architecture of Wales
From the First to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole,...
The History and Architecture of Cardiff Civic Centre
Black Gold, White City
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Cardiff’s civic centre in Cathays Park, described as the finest civic centre in the British Isles, is an impressive planned group of public buildings, begun largely with wealth created by the coal industry in the south Wales coalfield. This book covers the Cardiff site’s earlier evolution as a...