Scottish Broch Book, Image, Architecture Titles, Authors, Publications, Orkney
Scottish Brochs Book : Publications
Historic Buildings in Scotland: Educational / Architectural Literature
Scottish Broch Book
Please note prices vary
Dun Edin Broch image © Adrian Welch
Brochs of Scotland
J.N.G. Ritchie
£3.99
1998, Shire Publications Ltd., 56pp., paperback
Brochs of Scotland
Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney: Bu
John W Hedges
£14
1987, Brit.Archaeol. Reports
Brochs of Orkney
Scottish Architecture
Scottish Architecture (World of Art Series)
Miles Glendinning, Aonghus MacKechnie
List Price: £8.95
Our Price: £7.16
Scottish Architecture
Paperback 224 pp ( 2004) Publisher: Thames and Hudson ISBN: 0500203741
196 illustrations 68 in colour
Scottish Architecture
A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure. They only are to be found in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created, and belong to the classification “complex Atlantic Roundhouse” devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.
The theory that they were defensive military structures (an Iron Age equivalent to the castles and tower houses of medieval Scotland) is not accepted by many modern archaeologists, while the alternative notion that they were farmhouses is dismissed by some others. Although most stand alone in the landscape, some examples exist of brochs surrounded by clusters of smaller dwellings. Brochs typically had a double stone outer wall with timber balconies on the inner side, facing the central fire. The building structure is highly logical for both strong defence and for efficient warming.
Architectural Design
Architecture Design Books – chronological list of publications
Architecture in Scotland
Scottish Architecture Designs – chronological list
Contemporary Architecture in Scotland – architectural selection below:
St James Quarter, central Edinburgh
Architects: BDP Glasgow studio + Allan Murray Architects
image courtesy of architects practice
St James Quarter Edinburgh
Literature House for Scotland, John Knox House, Edinburgh
Winning Architects: Witherford Watson Mann ; Groves-Raines Architects Studios ; Studio MB
photograph © Daniel Lomholt-Welch
Literature House for Scotland
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