Enfilade

From UCL Press, where it’s also available as a free PDF:

Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes, eds., Between Design and Making: Architecture and Craftsmanship, 1630–1760 (London: University College London Press, 2024), 339 pages, ISBN: 978-1800086951 (hardback), £55 / ISBN: 978-1800086944 (paperback), £35.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a high point in the intersection between design and workmanship. Skilled artisans, creative and technically competent agents within their own field, worked across a wide spectrum of practice that encompassed design, supervision, and execution, and architects relied heavily on the experience they brought to the building site. Despite this, the bridge between design and tacit artisanal knowledge has been an underarticulated factor in the architectural achievement of the early modern era.

Building on the shift towards a collaborative and qualitative analysis of architectural production, Between Design and Making re-evaluates the social and professional fabric that binds design to making and reflects on the asymmetry that has emerged between architecture and craft. Combining analysis of buildings, archival material, and eighteenth-century writings, the authors draw out the professional, pedagogical, and social links between architectural practice and workmanship. They argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production, exploring the obscure centre ground of the creative process: the scribbled, sketched, hatched, and annotated beginnings of design on the page; the discussions, arguments, and revisions in the forging of details; and the grappling with stone, wood, and plaster on the building site that pushed projects from conception to completion.

Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes are post-doctoral research fellows of the European Research Council Advanced Grant project, STONE-WORK, and former research fellows of the Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Project CRAFTVALUE at Trinity College Dublin.

c o n t e n t s

Foreword — Christine Casey

Introduction: Between Design and Making: Architecture and Craftsmanship, 1630–1760 — Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes

Part 1 | Practice
1  Architect and Mason-Architect: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone, and the Development of the Open-Well Suspended Stone Staircase in the 1630s — Gordon Higgott and Adam White
2  The Townesend Family and the Building of Eighteenth-Century Oxford — Geoffrey Tyack
3  Codes, Conventions, Circulations: Drawings as an Instrument of Collaboration in the Work of Nicolas Pineau — Bénédicte Gady
4  Architects and Artificers: Building Management at Trinity College Dublin in the 1730s and 1740s — Melanie Hayes
5  Artisans and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Saxony — Nele Lüttmann
6  Between Concept and Construction: Conservation Insights into the Building of Damer House — Mairtín D’Alton and Flora O’Mahony

Part 2 | Representation
7  Architects and Craftsmen: A Theme with Variations — Alistair Rowan
8  Classical Profiles: The ‘Alphabet of Architecture’? — Edward McParland
9  Allegorising the Space between Architecture and Craft: Mural Painting 1630–1730 — Lydia Hamlett
10  Material, Curiosity, and Performance: The Reception of Workmanship in Early Modern Britain and Ireland — Andrew Tierney