- 006
- The Microcosm of London: The Interiors of the City as an Archive of Life and Death
The Microcosm of London:
The Interiors of the City as an Archive of Life and Death
- Abstract
- The image of cities through the interiors of buildings has a long tradition. Often they are images of power and status. They show halls in palaces, churches and
theatres and celebrate the opulence and exuberance of the architectural decoration. In the emerging modern metropolis of the industrial revolution, the images of interiors document the multitude of urban situations and social practices. A differentiated urban economy ensures the invention of a wide variety of urban institutes and architectural solutions. This article takes the publication The Microcosm of London as its premise, published between 1808 and 1810, with images of various social situations, from prisons to hospitals and from places of learning and amusement in which the metropolis emerges as an archive of interiors.
006 007
008 009
010 011
012 013
014 015
016 017
018 019
020 021
- Citation
- Grafe, C. (2018). The Microcosm of London: . The Interiors of the City as an Archive of Life and Death. Microcosm . Searching for the City in Its Interiors, OASE, (101), 6–13. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/101/TheMicrocosmofLondon
Download PDF (397 KB)
- Editors of this issue
- Aslı Cicek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias, Daniel Rosbottom
- Authors
- Gideon Boeie & Thomas Rasker, Claudia Conforti, Fredie Flore, Casper Franken & Sereh Mandias, Christoph Grafe, Marius Grootveld, Aura-Luz Melis, Giulia Ricci, Daniel Rosbottom, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Stoorgaard
- Design
- Karel Martens, Aagje Martens
- November 2018
- English/Dutch
- Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
- 170 × 240 mm
- Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
- ISBN978-94-6208-469-8
- © {"en"=>"NAi Publishers"}, 2018
- Subsidising institutions
- Creative Industries Fund NL
006 007
008 009
010 011
012 013
014 015
016 017
018 019
020 021
