Historicizing Iron: Charles Driver and the Abbey Mills Pumping Station (1865-68)

@article{Dobraszczyk2006HistoricizingIC,
  title={Historicizing Iron: Charles Driver and the Abbey Mills Pumping Station (1865-68)},
  author={Paul Dobraszczyk},
  journal={Architectural History},
  year={2006},
  volume={49},
  pages={223 - 256},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:107869375}
}
Victorian architects and architectural theorists made a clear distinction between ‘building’ and ‘architecture’; for them, a building became architecture when historical references were invoked. The development of new constructive materials, in particular cast iron, directly challenged this perceived distinction. A new material possessed no history; how, therefore, could it be architectural? This paper will address this question by focusing on the treatment of cast iron in a particular building… 
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