Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of figures and tables Introduction Part One. Defining experiences 1. Architecture and experience: Regimes of materiality in the nineteenth century - William Whyte Part Two. Producing experience 2. Touching heaven, crafting utopia: David Parr House in Cambridge -Ayla Lepine 3. Architecture of the mind: Imparting Californian identity through architectural experience on the early Stanford University campus - David Frazer Lewis 4. The architecture of art education: Provincial art schools in Britain, 1850-1914 - Geoffrey Tyack 5. Rooms and galleries: spaces of art in the nineteenth century - Valerie Mendelson Part 3. Designing experience 6. New York's Harvard House and the origins of an alumi culture in America - H. Horatio Joyce 7. Architectural acoustics: Thomas Roger Smith and the science of hearing buildings in nineteenth century Britain - Graeme Gooday 8. Powers of politics, scientific measurement and perception: Evaluating the performance of the Houses of Commons' first environmental system, 1852-4 - Henrik Schoenfeldt Part 4. Audiences and experience 9. Publicity and exclusivity: The experience of the public rooms of the London 'grand hotel' at the end of the nineteenth century - Emma Anderson 10. The fullest fountain of advancing civilization: Experiencing Anthony Trollope's House of Commons, 1852-82 - Edward Gillin 11. Building student bodies: College gymnasia and women's health in nineteenth century America - Caitlin DeClercq Part 5. Epilogue 12. Material, movement and memory: Some thoughts on architecture and experience in the age of mechanisation - Alex Bremner

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Examining the buildings of the Victorian era through the lens of ‘experience’.

About the Author

Edward Gillin is an Associate Research Fellow at the History Faculty, University of Oxford. H. Horatio Joyce is a doctoral student in history at the University of Oxford, and a PhD Scholar of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB).