Web Assignment 5
The Great
Exhibition
of 1851, held in London's Hyde Park, was an enormously important
industrial
exhibition celebrating British economic prowess and ingenuity. The
Crystal Palace, the iron and glass building in which the Exhibition
was held, was an extraordinary achievement of modern architecture and
itself
a monument to those same national characteristics. Imagine you are John
Ruskin and write a review of the Great Exhibition and the Crystal
Palace
for the London Times based on what Ruskin says about
architecture
and industrialism in the excerpt from The Stones of Venice's
"On
the Nature of Gothic."
Additional images can be viewed at Victorian
Station (a cheesy site, but the images are good).