John C. Loudon and Jane Webb Loudon formed one of the most productive publishing alliances in the fields of gardening, botany, and architecture in early nineteenth-century Britain. They employed a range of genres with particular skill, such as the encyclopaedia, the magazine, and the manual. Between 1834 and 1838, they produced the first British architectural magazine — then still a young genre. They strove to improve architectural taste among anyone involved with architecture: from the builder, student, and architect to the client and occupier, including women. This article examines the shortlived Architectural Magazine and the claim that its inclusive approach documented a brief period of architectural democratisation during the 1830s, before the exclusionary tendencies of professionalisation and institutionalisation took hold. Who made up the early architectural magazine’s ‘public’, and in which ways can Loudon’s approach indeed be called ‘democratic’? To address such questions, this article considers the Architectural Magazine as a successor to Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture. It explores the networks of readers and authors established by the Loudons, and the relationship between the public and the emerging architectural profession, in light of contemporary aesthetic and political theory.

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从百科全书到杂志：1830 年代英国的 Loudons、公众和建筑师

John C. Loudon 和 Jane Webb Loudon 组成了 19 世纪早期英国园艺、植物学和建筑领域最富有成效的出版联盟之一。他们采用了一系列具有特殊技能的体裁，例如百科全书、杂志和手册。1834 年至 1838 年间，他们制作了第一本英国建筑杂志——当时仍然是一个年轻的流派。他们努力提高所有与建筑相关的人的建筑品味：从建造者、学生和建筑师到客户和占用者，包括女性。本文考察了短命的《建筑杂志》，并声称其包容性方法记录了 1830 年代建筑民主化的短暂时期，在专业化和制度化的排斥趋势占据主导地位之前。谁构成了早期建筑杂志的“公众”，劳登的方法在哪些方面确实可以被称为“民主”？为了解决这些问题，本文将建筑杂志视为劳登的小屋、农场和别墅建筑百科全书的继任者。根据当代美学和政治理论，它探索了 Loudons 建立的读者和作者网络，以及公众与新兴建筑行业之间的关系。