The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-modern

Ranging widely over English architecture during the last 200 years, through Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian styles to the present day, this fully illustrated study explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Joe Mordaunt Crook, a leading authority on British architectural history, has also written "The Greek Revival" and "William Burges and the High Victorian Dream".