Art & Photography Books
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Real Families: Stories of Change
Book SynopsisWhat is a family? And how is family experienced? These questions, explored through artists’ eyes, are at the heart of the exhibition, Real Families: Stories of Change, a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research. The book provides a catalogue of the exhibition in four sections, containing twelve illuminating essays that discuss the concept of the family.Real Families: Stories of Change focuses on art produced in the past 50 years, a period of significant change in how families are created and structured, with historical works woven into the exhibition to examine what is genuinely new, and what has remained the same, about the family. The catalogue includes reproductions of paintings, photography and sculpture.In the first section, ‘What is a Family?’, artists portray new forms of family, including families formed by assisted reproduction and families with LGBTQ+ parents, as well as families affected by divorce, adoption and infertility. The works prompt viewers to consider stereotyped beliefs about what makes a family and society’s prejudice against childlessness.Second, ‘Family Transitions’ starts with artists’ representations of motherhood, followed by an examination of the positive role that fathers play. Works on siblings speak to the dynamic and intense relationships that exist between siblings, and those on grandparents and grandchildren highlight the benefit of having each other in their lives. Artists also convey their complex feelings about their ageing parents.‘Family Dynamics’ explores positive and negative relationships between couples, parents and children, and extended family, with works that foreground affection and rejection, comfort and conflict, enmeshment, estrangement and not fitting in. The works also examine the wider social, cultural and political influences on family relationships. Finally, ‘Family Legacies’ highlights the importance to many people of a sense of connection and belonging. This section explores the transmission of family from one generation to the next through genetic inheritance, social and cultural practices, language and objects, which can forge emotional connections and give rise to family memories.
£28.50
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd The Flowering Desert Textiles From Sindh
Book SynopsisThis is a revised second edition of the best-selling book which incorporates new and additional material on the majority of the objects as well as an expanded glossary which will be of interest to both collector and scholar. The first edition was long-listed for the R.L. Shep Award by the Textile Society of America and chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Crafts Council of the UK, both in 2020.
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Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Henry Moore
Book SynopsisHenry Spencer Moore (18981986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue considers Moore's celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II. It accompanies a focused exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery.**After the destruction of his London studio early in World War II, Henry Moore began drawing figures sheltering from bomb raids in the London Underground. This catalogue and exhibition consider Moore's celebrated series as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist's fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II.In the London Underground, where Moore drew these figures, the walls of these sheltered spaces came to absorb his attention in an altogether new way, becoming scene-setters, and key components of his drawings. This fascination with the bricks and the presence of walls, their tex
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Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Roger Mayne Youth
Book SynopsisSelf-taught and influential in the advocacy of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about representing human life as he found it most famously, in his street images of low-income communities in West London. Capturing children at play and the emerging phenomenon of the swaggering teenager', Mayne discovered in the young a defining energy that perfectly embodied both the scars and the vitality of post-war Britain.The exhibition of more than sixty photographs brings together a selection of Mayne's iconic London scenes with later, almost entirely unknown intimate portraitsof his own family in rural Dorset. While these two strands have a different tenor, they share Mayne's radical empathy and his evident desire to create images with lasting impact, sensitivity and artistic integrity. With those pictured from the 1950s now in their senior years and a new generation of young people faced with myriad crises, Mayne's images of childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely.The catalogue is richly illustrated and includes an original essay by Jane Alison and an interview with Mayne's daughter, Katkin Tremayne.
£28.50
Not Stated Abstract Erotic Louise Bourgeois Eva Hesse and
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Strange Attractor Press Paradise Volume 3
Book SynopsisThe third and final volume of Ken Hollings? personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics.In Paradise, Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste.King Ludwig II of Bavaria, "King of Rock ''n'' Roll" Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected through individual displays of unfettered extravagance that brought them to the very edge of ruin. Each of them lived out their personal ideals of beauty and pleasure?even after the money was gone.In his reworking of Dante Alighieri?s Paradiso, Hollings presents Heaven as a place of rebellious, but tragic, self-indulgence. As he notes in his introduction: "You have to be in Heaven to see Hell."
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Triarchy Press Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions
Book SynopsisThe experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very latest developments. Editors Helen Billinghurst, Claire Hind and Phil Smith put out a call for artists, activists, academics, radical walkers and psychogeographers to discuss, perform and share their experiences of current walking cultures. In these essays, provocations, artworks and documentations, new terrains emerge and diverse energies and thinkings reflect the huge response to the initial call and the demand for tickets to the conference. 'Walking Bodies' evidences anxieties, exclusions and gradual but major changes of direction for walking arts, towards more considered and embodied practices that re-navigate their terrains and challenge assumptions about trajectories through the unhuman world. Here are the beginnings of differently negotiated, shared, provoked and provocative ambulations.Table of ContentsIntroductions Magical Aesthetics: walking with eight legs - Sarah Scaife Walking in Tree Time - Duncan Hay, Leah Lovett, Martin de Jode, Andrew Hudson-Smith Dancing-Walking with Trees - Vicky Hunter Walking with Elephants - Cathy Turner Being Horse: walking as an impossible beast - James Frost and Sonia Overall Pigeon Steps - Gabrielle Hoad and Megan Calver Crow - Matt Fletcher Walking away? From deep mapping to mutual accompaniment - Iain Biggs Web Walking - Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith The Artist-Scholar Walks: Passage to Else-Where - Ishita Jain How do our bodies act as instruments of sensory navigation? - Emma Bush Suriashi as a ceremonial, subversive act - Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt From Working to Walking - Chloe Lund Inspiral Undergrowth - Rachel Gomme The Sight of the Walker - William Sharpe Walking Diagrams - Helen Billinghurst Visiting Sutton Pool - Monali Meher Object Place Walking - Jody Oberfelder A Route Unscrambled - Gary Winters and Claire Hind Words from Walks - Hamish Fulton Quipu - Elspeth (Billie) Penfold The S Project - Carly Butler and Gudrun Filipska White Man Walking: Settler Ambulation in Colonised Spaces - Ken Wilson Walking-with whiteness - Richard S. White/Walknow The Meaning and Importance of Refusals - Sarah Harper Access Denied? Walking Art and Disabled People - Morag Rose Mind the Gap - Philippe Guillaume The Documentary Drift: Lutyens, Cockington and Poetry - Sam Kemp 'It started with a film and ended with a walk' - Sam Christie Chip Walks - Hilary Ramsden and Clare Qualmann Noble & King, Walking with Correspondence - Simon King and Corinne Noble Chasing Mists - Anna Sanders-Falcini On Mythogeosonics - John Bowers and Tim Shaw
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Key Publishing Ltd Scottish Railways: The Last 15 Years
Book SynopsisThe last 15 years have seen many changes in Scotland's rail network, including the replacement of old rolling stock, an explosion of colourful liveries, the opening of routes, the demise of coal trains and a boom in container freight traffic. Furthermore, electrification has changed a number of the lines beyond recognition. These changes have led to new electric units ousting the diesels and the introduction of HSTs on services between the Scottish cities. Illustrated with over 180 images, this book details the huge variety of trains, ranging from the everyday to the unusual, that have been seen on Scotland's rails in the last 15 years.
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Key Publishing Ltd Diesels in East Yorkshire: Four Decades of Change
Book SynopsisThis photographic journey illustrates East Yorkshire's fascinating passenger and freight trains, railway infrastructure, stations and signalling over a 40-year period from the late 1970s. Local knowledge has enabled many unrepeatable workings or interesting visiting locomotives to be captured on film giving a comprehensive record of the many changes that have taken place in the railways of East Yorkshire. The over 180 color photographs, many of which have never been published before, illustrate rail services have grown or declined and the infrastructure of the railways has evolved over 40 years to meet the needs of the modern railway era.
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D Giles Limited African Americans and the American Flag
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Wordwell Books Galway
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Orion Publishing Co David Hockney
Book SynopsisThe latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portaitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and 1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. By the beginning of the millennium, he returned to his Yorkshire roots, embarking on a new period of painting. This came to an end with the death by misadventure in his home of a young studio assistant in 2013. He went 'home' to LA and has in the intervening years begun a new period of contemplative portraiture.
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Orion Publishing Co From the Sculptor's Studio: Conversations with 20
Book SynopsisFiona Banner, Phyllida Barlow, Anthony Caro, Richard Deacon, Laura Ford, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Anish Kapoor, Tania Kovats, Richard Long, David Nash, Cornelia Parker, Marc Quinn, Peter Randall-Page, Eva Rothschild, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Wilson and Bill Woodrow - these are the sculptors who have helped define sculpture, and here they are in their own words. From the Sculptor's Studio is a unique collection of personal conversations with 20 seminal artists, each of whom have created iconic work, exhibited worldwide, and pushed past the boundaries of sculpting in their own way.From the Sculptor's Studio contains 165 colour images of the artists' work, as well as portraits of each of the sculptors.
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RIBA Publishing Good Practice Guide: Business Resilience
Book SynopsisArchitecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice, offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble, pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice, it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward, honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework, exploring practice, staff, clients, projects, consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption.Table of ContentsPart 1 - OrganisationsChapter 1: PracticeChapter 2: ProjectsChapter 3: ProvidersPart 2 - PeopleChapter 4: StaffChapter 5: ClientsChapter 6: Consultants
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RIBA Publishing Design Studio Vol. 5: Experimental Realism:
Book SynopsisThe experimental provides architects with a vital means to test ideas and the untried. Like authors and artists, architects harness the power of fiction to explore alternative models of society and push the boundaries of the possible. Though these imaginings can be influential aesthetically, like the prisons of Piranesi or the cities of Lebbeus Woods, they remain largely confined to paper or the screen – unbuilt. By injecting the experimental with a new realism, however, speculative design has the potential to advance new inclusive, equitable and desirable futures. Showcasing cutting-edge insight, this Design Studio volume advocates the inclusion of the visionary in the architectural design process. It explores the real-world application of near-future fantastical storytelling and the power of imaginative literacy. Articles cover subjects such as plausible impossibilities, other worlds, terraforming, activism, democratising design, future innovations and education, to name but a few. Departing from unrealistic utopian or dystopian visions, they empower plural design reactions in response to real-life scenarios. What impacts might a generational wave of ethical non-monogamy have on the way we use space and the future design of our built environment? Or the introduction of a universal basic income? Or the ready availability of lab grown meat? Thinking, imagining, designing, storytelling … these are political acts. How will you use your vote? Features: Phil Balagtas, Nicolay Boyadjiev, Benjamin H. Bratton, Dana Barale Burdman, Tom Greenall, Anab Jain, Nicola Koller, Matteo Mastrandrea, César Reyes Nájera, Kathy Nothstine, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Anna Pompermaier, Ayesha Silburn, Phoebe Walton, Matt Ward and Liam Young.Table of ContentsIn Other Worlds: Cities Shaped Like Fiction by Liam Young Plausible Impossibilities by Tom Greenall, Matteo Mastrandrea and Nicola Koller The Terraforming by Benjamin H. Bratton and Nicolay Boyadjiev Equitable and Desirable Futures by Gem Barton City-based Testbeds: Simulating Possible Futures in ‘Real-world’ Conditions by Kathy NothstineA New Type of Design Education: Models, Materials and FuturesBy Matt Ward The Aesthetics of Misuse: Mitigating Excess by Ayesha Silburn Meet Me Halfway: An Exploration of Architecture Across Realities by Anna Pompermaier The Net Blvd by Dana Barale Burdman James v Birnmann: Designing a Never-Ending Legal Drama, in a World Judges Are No Longer Human by Phoebe Walton Experiments in Speculative, Critical Activism by Anab Jain Speculative Design and Emerging Practice: From Local Meetups to a Global Community by Phil Balagtas Future Architecture, A Beautiful Chaos by César Reyes Nájera and Ethel Baraona Pohl
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RIBA Publishing Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to
Book SynopsisHow do we ensure sustainable buildings perform as intended? The performance gap between predicted and actual energy use in new homes has been identified as a key problem by government and industry experts. This updated edition is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It introduces readers to the concept of the performance gap and highlights clear issues and solutions to help architects improve their detailing at design stage. The book: Features annotated details with photos taken from live construction sites Includes accessible practical guidance for busy practitioners Highlights how to boost the construction quality and performance of new homes Promotes the case for more architect supervision throughout the construction process. A new chapter features innovative, low-carbon building methods, including hempcrete blocks, clay blocks and straw bales. All information has been updated to reflect the latest data with fresh details and technologies.Table of ContentsHow to use this book Glossary Introduction Chapter 1: The performance gap and how to reduce it Chapter 2: How to detail a thermally efficient building envelope Chapter 3: Masonry – cavity wall construction Chapter 4: Concrete frame construction Chapter 5: Timber frame construction Chapter 6: Insulated concrete formwork Chapter 7: Off-site construction Chapter 8: Natural building materials Chapter 9: Building services performance Chapter 10: How to deliver improved performance Appendix 1: Site inspection checklist Appendix 2: Designed to Perform checklist Appendix 3: Thermal conductivity assumptions
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RIBA Publishing Feasibility Studies: An Architect’s Guide
Book SynopsisFind that you’re spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study? Or that you have drifted into detailed design without formalising an appropriate form of appointment? This practical guide details the benefits of a feasibility study. Once you’ve secured the commission, how do you ensure you’re following current best practice? Aimed at architects, it identifies the pitfalls involved in undertaking a feasibility study and explains how to set boundaries, organise the process and manage clients’ aspirations. By featuring recent live projects, alongside advice from successful architectural practices, it illustrates how a feasibility study can help achieve positive outcomes and avoid the dangers of a poorly defined brief and service proposal. Presenting the client’s, as well as the architect’s, perspective, this publication highlights why a feasibility study is a sensible way of establishing viability prior to committing to a full-service commission. It underlines the significance of ‘adding value’ as an architect.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The RIBA Plan of Work Case Study 1: Church reordering Chapter 2: The Client’s perspective Case Study 2: House extension Chapter 3: Selling the service – the Architects view Case Study 3: Community hall Chapter 4: Fees and appointment Case Study 4: Rowing centre Chapter 5: Managing the process Case Study 5: Research laboratories Chapter 6: Communications and stakeholders Case Study 6: Emergency services centre Chapter 7: Gathering and assimilating data Case Study 7: Reuse of heritage building Chapter 8: Developing the client’s brief Case Study 8: House on garden plot Chapter 9: Option appraisals Case Study 9: Classroom wing Chapter 10: Monitoring and reporting back Case Study 10: Office development Chapter 11: The next stage Case Study 11: Affordable housing Summary
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RIBA Publishing Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of
Book SynopsisHow did you do that drawing? What software did you use? What’s your process? You may have found yourself asking these questions about a striking architectural drawing. In recent years, social media has become a primary source of expression for architects and designers, yet there isn’t always the means to find out how their works became reality. Giving you a peek behind the illustrative curtain, this book demystifies the process and technique that created some of the most outstanding drawings in your feed. Offering lessons that many universities don’t teach, it’s an essential guide for architecture students and designers, featuring profiles from highly regarded illustrators, thinkers, and emerging architectural influencers. Covering a mix of styles, concepts and mediums, it gives a detailed breakdown of a diverse range of drawing processes alongside technical tips and concept inspirations. Whether you’re a flourishing student or established professional: This is your guide to drawing attention.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Architectural Drawing in the Age of Social Media by Hamza Shaikh 01. Drawing Parallels – Architecture Representation, Then & Now by Hamza Shaikh 02. Instagram as Interface – The New Picture Plane by Perry Kulper 03. DRAWING PROFILE #1: Hamza Shaikh / Vector Sketch 04. DRAWING PROFILE #2: Bea Martin / Machinic Assemblies 05. DRAWING PROFILE #3: Eric Wong / Creating Worlds 06. Sketch Like an Architect by David Drazil 07. DRAWING PROFILE #4: Yvette Earl / Street Illustrations 08. DRAWING PROFILE #5: Bryan Cantley / Line Politics 09. DRAWING PROFILE #6: Malavika Madhuraj / Digital Art 10. The Basics of Healthy Productivity by Sana Tabassum 11. DRAWING PROFILE #7: Saul Kim / Architecture Anomalies 12. DRAWING PROFILE #8: Ana Aragão / Mega Drawings 13. DRAWING PROFILE #9: Salmaan Mohamed / Drawing is Design 14. Multimedia Representation by Thomas Rowntree 15. DRAWING PROFILE #10: Perry Kulper / Analog Art 16. DRAWING PROFILE #11: Alex SYH / Isometric Insanity 17. DRAWING PROFILE #12: Veronika Ikonnikova / Ink & iPad 18. Line Ideation by Fraser Morrison 19. DRAWING PROFILE #13: Ehab Alhariri / Procreative 20. DRAWING PROFILE #14: Clement Luk Laurencio / Pencil & Eraser 21. DRAWING PROFILE #15: Zain Al-Sharaf Wahbeh / Art is Artefact 22. Observational Sketch by Hammad Haider 23. DRAWING PROFILE #16: Karina Armanda / The Ghibli Effect 24. DRAWING PROFILE #17: Pauline Personeni / Paper Narratives 25. DRAWING PROFILE #18: Neil Spiller / Non-chronology 26. Capturing Culture by Areesha Khalid 27. Drawing on the Future by Hamza Shaikh
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RIBA Publishing RIBA Ethical Practice Guide
Book SynopsisThe climate and biodiversity emergency, the Grenfell Tower tragedy, and rising inequality all serve as reminders of the ethical responsibilities of the architect, and the importance of ethical decision-making. Ethical practice is a core competence for architects, which means it is vital that students and professionals develop a fundamental awareness and understanding of ethics. This guide is designed to improve the industry’s grasp of ethical practice as it relates to the wider world, society, clients, the workplace, the profession, and the individual. Aimed at architects, but relevant to built environment practitioners more generally, each chapter introduces an ethical duty, setting out the relevant legal, regulatory, and professional context before exploring the detailed subject matter and key principles. It includes an ethical dilemma for each duty and views and experiences from across the profession. Also delving into issues such as equity, diversity and inclusion, social value, wellbeing, and integrity, it does not seek out ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. Rather it encourages reflection on core values and possible consequences to encourage balanced and reasoned positions. While ethical practice is invaluable in itself, it is also critical for establishing trust with clients, improving transparency and enhancing reputation. It can act as a magnet for the attraction and retention of high-quality staff. Contributing positively to the avoidance of disputes, it can also provide a level of accountability that is beneficial both to the industry and wider society. Including contributions from: Neal Shasore, Farhana Yamin, Justin Bere, Jan Kattein, Darius Jenner Pullinger, Virginia Newman, Dhruv Sookhoo and Ben Channon.Table of ContentsIntro: Ethics in practice - History & definitions - Ethics not morals - Ethics and culture - Virtue Ethics / Social Contract Ethics / Duty Ethics / Utilitarian Ethics - Defining behaviours - Codes, Regulations, Sanctions and Best Practice - The Public Interest - How it is defined and who is responsible - Professional ethics - Recognising an ethical issue - Ethical processes and techniques - Whistleblowing - The 6 duties Chapter 1 – Duty to the Wider World - Legal obligations - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - The Climate and Biodiversity emergency - Sustainable and Regenerative design (mitigation / adaptation) - Supply Chains and Resource Use - Rights of Nature - Whole life performance - Net Zero - Openness & transparency - Tools & techniques - Dilemma – Challenging the brief Chapter 2 – Duty to Society and the End User - Legal obligations (tort & company law) - Building Regs, Housing Standards and Planning Policy - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - Specification - Health and safety - Bribery & corruption - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (including bias & discrimination) - Stakeholder Identification and Engagement - Social Value and Social Responsibility (including link to sustainable development and including embedding throughout organisation) - Regeneration - Evidence-informed design - Inclusive design and inclusive environments - Wellbeing - Accuracy & truthfulness - Rights of Future Generations - Tools & techniques - Dilemma - Affordable housing provision Chapter 3 – Duty to those Commissioning Services - Legal obligations - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - The client relationship - Conflicts of interest - Competence and diligence - Lay clients - Experienced private clients - Public Sector clients - Confidentiality - Time, cost, quality - Communication and complaints - Stewardship and aftercare - Learning and improvement - Tools & techniques - Dilemma - Client’s best interest - Chapter 4 – Duty to those in the workplace - Legal obligations - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - Company culture - Respecting colleagues - Managing practice and work environment - Training and development - Health, safety and wellbeing - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (including the RIBA EDI Policy Guide) - Modern Slavery - Tools & techniques - Dilemma – Workplace Chapter 5 – Duty to the Profession - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - Reputation & Value - Respecting previous appointments - Copyright & Credit - Whistleblowing and disclosure - Knowledge sharing - Research, Data Ethics, POE & Building Performance - Contributing to and representing the profession - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (including the RIBA Inclusion Charter) - Tools & techniques - Dilemma - A competition Chapter 6 – Duty to Oneself - The Codes of Conduct and Practice - Principles and values - Competence - Accountability - Continuing Professional Development - Evaluation, reflection and positionality - Pro Bono work - Bribery & corruption - Tools & techniques - Dilemma - A conflict of interest Conclusion – Resolving Ethical Issues - Core values - Decision making - Lifelong learning - Independence - Leadership - Advocacy - Resources and toolkits - Reviews and feedback
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RIBA Publishing Architect: The evolving story of a profession
Book SynopsisThe architect’s role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly, shaped by social, cultural, technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect is and does has evolved over time from lead builder or master mason to principal designer. A collaborative and reactive profession, it is inextricably linked to the power of the patron, whether the client is an influential and affluent individual or a political, commercial, civic or religious organisation. From Ancient Egypt, where architects were members of the ruling class, tied into the running of the empire, to the 21st century when questions are being raised about the future of the profession, this book, with its engaging narrative, explores the constant threads that remain as the profession adapts. While architects are no longer deified, their ability to imagine a new impending reality in built form implies a visionary dimension to their work. By focusing on both the practicalities of the profession and the more intangible motivations behind design – humans’ need to make a mark upon their surroundings – this volume provides a critical overview of over 3000 years of practice and education. Looking at the key questions of where the architectural profession originated in the Western tradition, why it is, how it is today and where it might be going next, the authors postulate that architects’ ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in the past will stand them in good stead for the uncertainties of the future.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors Introduction Chapter 1 The Ancients Chapter 2 From the Medieval to the Modern Chapter 3 Formalising the British Profession Chapter 4 Democratisation and Commodification Chapter 5 Flawed Utopia Chapter 6 Recessions, Diversifications and Gradual Change Chapter 7 Global Practice Chapter 8 The Contemporary Architect: The Struggle To Convey Value Chapter 9 Educating Architects Chapter 10 Conclusions Image credits Index
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RIBA Publishing Collective Action!: The Power of Collaboration
Book SynopsisBuildings cannot be built without people working together. Architects collaborate with other disciplines, other architects and even with the public. These take place every day, across multiple planning and design stages. Small or emerging practices often suffer from a lack of resources, but what if we pooled our collective resources, sharing knowledge and experiences? Collaborative architecture begins in the design studio, and the relationship between academia and practice can create a symbiosis that is fundamental to the careers of young and more established architects. It provides a space to develop and test approaches outside of routine commercial pressures, using research to yield new approaches that further the impact of the architecture sector more widely. By cooperating, we can facilitate a good design process can lay the foundation for a better form of architecture that provides greater diversity and a plurality of voices. This volume showcases how practices have the potential to adapt, remain resilient and harness collective power to become greater than the sum of their parts. The future is bright for architects if they can unite. Take Collective Action! Features: Sarah Ahmed, Marc Cairns, Alasdair Ben Dixon, Amy Francis-Smith, Lanre Gbolade, Stephen Hill, Khuzema Hussain, Lacol, Matthew Morris, Chris Nasah, David Ogunmuyiwa, POoR Collective, Retrouvius, Dhruv Adam Sookhoo, Samuel Stair, Tomas Tvarijonas, Dr Joe Jack Williams, WIP Collaborative and Siri Zanelli.Table of ContentsStrategies for Collaborative Research in Architectural Practice By Dhruv Sookhoo Co-Design Tools: Regenerating Communities By Kyle Buchanan and Sarah Ahmed, Archio, Getting to Grips with Embodied Carbon By Dr Joe Jack Williams, Feilden Clegg Bradley Community and Collaborative By Abigail Coover, Bryony Roberts, Elsa Ponce, Lindsay Harkema, Ryan Brooke Thomas, Sera Ghadaki and Sonya Gimon, WIP In-sourcing <By Khuzema Hussain, Siri Zanelli, Alasdair Ben Dixon and Tomas Tvarijonas, Collective Works Building a Dream Team By Marc Cairns and Samuel Stair, New Practice Delivering Collaborative Projects By David Ogunmuyiwa, ArchitectureDoingPlace and Karakusevic Carson Collective Action in a Climate Emergency By Matthew Morris, ACAN Changing the Narrative for Collective Impact By Lanre Gbolade, Paradigm Network An Inclusive Way Forward By Amy Francis-Smith Building Housing to Build Community By Lacol Collaboration for a Home By Retrouvius & Archio Bringing Home to the Unknown By POoR Collective Final Word: Co-producing the Future By Stephen Hill
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RIBA Publishing Sustainable Interior Design
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a sustainable interior designer? Where do you start? This book demystifies how to be a sustainable interior designer, both within practice and on design projects. It gives you the tools to educate clients that sustainable practice isn't necessarily more expensive, and what the options available to them are in terms of design concept, materials and finishes. Importantly, the book also looks at sustainable supply chains, particularly important when specifying FF+E. Where to start being sustainable can be a difficult decision. Acting as a primer for interior designers at any stage of their career, it outlines what you really need and don't need to know. Inspirational case studies from around the world sit alongside crucial guidance on the benefits of being sustainable and how to work with enlightened clients. There is information on how sustainable design contributes to health and wellbeing, all backed up by authoritative best practice guidance.
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B7 Media Hancock: The Lad Himself: The Lad Himself
Book SynopsisThe story of the legendary comedian Tony Hancock in words, pictures, and not without a few interruptions from The Lad Himself, who proves a little infuriated at how his story is told... as those who know and love his work would fully expect!When he appeared on radio and television in the 1950s, Hancock immediately became an archetype and so he has remained. The writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson basically invented the sitcom form for him, teasing out the threads of his personality and creating from them a universally recognisable figure: the ever-aspiring, grumpy, petty, frustrated everyman pitted against society, bureaucracy, jobsworth vindictiveness and whatever you're having yourself; the best and worst of all of us, down to his last shilling for the meter.WC Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Sid Field all came before him. Young Hancock was hugely influenced by them all, just as successive generations of comic actors (Cleese, Fry and Merton, to name a few) have been massively influenced by Hancock. The Office, Black Books, Peep Show and all the other great British sitcoms of the present day are variations on the Hancock template.The Lad Himself is the creation of writer Stephen Walsh and artist Keith Page, exploring the strange life of a much-admired comedian.Trade Review"It's really good in a way that creeps up onyou. Hancock's brilliance and comedy are timeless but the inner demons andinsecurities that caused him to destroy himself are timeless too. This graphicnovel shows us both sides of the man." -- Neil Gaiman (Good Omens,Sandman)"This work of love by talented fans is atriumph." -- Nick West, The Tony Hancock Appreciation Society"Stone me, it's a work of genius." --Robert Ross, Comedy Historian"Simply put, instantly one of the greatestBritish graphic novels ever. An immediate classic. Moving, funny, tragic andsurreal. A tale that could only be told in comics form. Buy it and becomeentranced in the funny yet melancholy life of a British icon, beautifully told."-- Mike Collins (2000AD, Doctor Who, Good Omens)"The Lad Himself is a complex,darkness-touched story told with kindness and elegance about a man convinced hedeserved neither. It's a salute to a generation who changed comedy. Most of allit's a complex series of nested punchlines about a man whose life was far morethan all of them, and who could never quite let himself believe that. Tragedy,comedy, horror and joy, all wrapped up in a big hat and a bigger coat,repeating the eternal half hour." -- Alasdair Stewart, The Full LidAn authentic voice transmits throughout viaexcellently devised speech patterns, with a recurring motif of aself-destructive propensity for mistaking ambition for capability. In all, thegood, the bad, and ugly of Hancock are duly and stylishly offered to present aman who delighted millions, but tragically never himself." -- FrankPlowright, Slings & Arrows
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Consilience Media Contemporary Art of Excellence - Volume 4
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SelfMadeHero Diego Rivera
Book SynopsisDiego Rivera was a revolutionary painter in more ways than one. Attending art school at eleven, by his twenties he counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, including Picasso, Modigliani, Braque and Gris. Rivera’s murals, both in his native Mexico and the USA, reflect the contradictory turbulence of his character and times. He met Lenin in Paris, Stalin in Moscow, and offered refuge to Trotsky during his Mexican exile. Meanwhile his work was commissioned by those giants of capitalism, Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. Rivera’s indefatigable industry was matched by his zest for life, accumulating hundreds of lovers and four wives – including Frida Kahlo, whose formidable partnership is also one of the great love-stories of art history. This beautifully realized graphic novel tells the story of the extraordinary life and times of an artist in whom myth and reality fused.
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Rough Trade Books Madge Gill by Myrninerest Revised and Updated
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Lee Miller Archives Publishing The Home of the Surrealists
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Hoxton Mini Press London 1977-1987
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Hoxton Mini Press On The Road: Vintage photographs of people and
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Hoxton Mini Press Work From Shed: Inspirational garden offices from
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Hoxton Mini Press Portrait Of Britain Volume 4
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£19.51
Hoxton Mini Press The Office
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£17.06
Hoxton Mini Press The Sustainable City: London's Greenest
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£24.00
Hoxton Mini Press A Very British Picnic
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£16.16
Hoxton Mini Press Portrait of Humanity Volume 4
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£21.25
Hoxton Mini Press After The Olympics: The regeneration of Stratford
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£16.16
Hoxton Mini Press This Pleasant Land: New British Landscape
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£24.00
Hoxton Mini Press The National Health Service: 75 Years
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£17.06
Hoxton Mini Press Looking At Trees: New Photography of Trees,
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£28.00
Hoxton Mini Press The Package Holiday: 1968–1985
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£17.06
Headline Publishing Group Craft Britain: Why Making Matters
Book SynopsisCraft is at the very heart of British identity, from stained-glass windows in country churches to the Enid Blyton charm of thatched houses; from Harris Tweed® (famously poached by Coco Chanel) to the ceremonial livery worn by horses at Buckingham Palace. The burgeoning of digital craftsmanship is also enriching ground-breaking technologies, including microbial weaving and bespoke-made vessels for growing human tissue. Craft Britain brings together watchmakers with saddlers; bell casters with neon benders; shoemakers with silversmiths; potters with orrery-makers; stonemasons with weavers; embroiderers with basket-makers – and a myriad other craft traditions.This book aims to beat the drum for craft, waking people up to the fact that they need to support the country's rich seam of incredible craftspeople and so encourage new generations to master the skills needed to preserve and continue craft traditions. Craft Britain proves that craftsmanship in Britain is neither dying nor dead, but is a continuing and exciting exploration of process, materials and ideas spanning architecture, interiors, fashion, art and design.
£32.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Chinese Art Today: From 20th-Century Tradition to
Book SynopsisContemporary Chinese art has played a significant role in contributing to art globalisation; meanwhile, the trajectory of modernisation of art in China has not been rendered explicitly. This book aims to explore the context of Chinese art from the 20th to the 21st century, from three aspects: society, the individual and art forms. It is hoped to inject new vitality into the current obscure art historiography. The complicated issue regarding how to position globalisation and national identity is well discussed throughout the book, addressing the hardcore research questions in the field. This research selects the nine most representative artists: Lin Fengmian, Wu Dayu, Sanyu, Zao Wou-ki, Wu Guanzhong, Su Tianci, Wang Jieyin, Zhang Enli and Chen Yujun.
£40.00
Unicorn Publishing Group Master of the House: The Theatres of Cameron
Book SynopsisWinner of the Architectural Book Awards 2020 Architectural History Book of the Year. Cameron Mackintosh is the world’s leading theatrical producer of musicals such as Cats, Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. He is also a significant theatre owner and has completed a two-decade campaign of refurbishment and rebuilding of eight London theatres that has set the tempo for maintaining one of Britain’s greatest cultural heritages for the next century. Master of the House charts the stories of these eight historic London buildings – their origins, their iconic shows and productions, the stars and the glamour. Lavishly illustrated with images from the Delfont Mackintosh archive, the book also contains original architect drawings, specially-commissioned photographs of the refurbishment, show posters and other theatre ephemera, and many sweeping panoramas of the exquisitely finished spaces.
£32.00
Watkins Media Limited Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the
Book SynopsisNarcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Herve Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name, this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism?Trade ReviewNarcissus in Bloom is a real achievement ... it marks a return to a now lost tradition: big-picture cultural theorising that speaks to and illuminates present-day anxieties in unexpected ways, spoken in the vernacular of contemporary popular culture, of the likes of Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and more. "Relating one's emotional self to those around us is at the very heart of Colquhoun's queer critical and political project. Narcissus in Bloom is ambitious, moving, inspirational and loving... a purposeful and universal work driven by the author's passion for photography.""Rather than see the selfie as a sign of self-absorption, this engrossing volume understands the selfie as expressing a longing for a kind of self-transformation. Elegantly and stylishly written, this book is the best kind of cultural criticism, sweeping away the worn- out cliches of the familiar for the freshness and wonder of the truly new.”"A fascinating alternative genealogy of our modern obsession with the photographic self-image. You'll never look at a selfie the same way again."
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Watkins Media Limited Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions
Book SynopsisGreat Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of its former colonial “kith and kin” across the seas? Why be in a Union with your immediate neighbours, when you could instead be in a trans-oceanic super-state with our old friends in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of the 'CANZUK Union', the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the white-majority 'Dominions' of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and climate change denialism. Artificial Islands tests the idea that Britain's natural allies and closest relations are in these three countries in North America and the Antipodes, through a good look at the histories, townscapes and spaces of several cities across the settler zones of the British Empire. These are some of the most purely artificial and modern landscapes in the world, British-designed cities that were built with extreme rapidity in forcibly seized territories on the other side of the world from Britain. Were these places really no more than just a reproduction of British Values planted in unlikely corners of the globe? How are people in Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and Wellington re-imagining their own history, or their countries' role in the British Empire and their complicity in its crimes? And do they have any interest in a union with us?Trade Review"A rich cliché-busting book, a model of how to think critically about empire and its contemporary relevance." - David Edgerton, author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation "Hatherley carries the narrative with an opinionated and entertaining style." — Rob Greer, The Idler "Hatherley’s accounts of walking Dominion cities display the intuitive feel for place, epigrammatic flair and caustic impatience for cant which make him a successor to the great urban explorers." — The Critic
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Parthian Books The Art of Music: Branding the Welsh Nation
Book SynopsisVisual culture has long been a vital component in the creation and dissemination of this prevalent national brand. The Art of Music describes the visualisation of Welsh music and musicians both in the context of the evolution of the self-image of the Welsh people, and of its influence on outside perceptions of Welshness within Britain and the wider world.
£32.00
September Publishing Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In
Book SynopsisEncounterism is a joyous immersion into the everyday pleasure and shared humanity we stand to lose in an increasingly digital world. Andy Field explores both different kinds of and different venues for human encounters, from the hairdressers to the cinema, from nightclubs to eateries, shops staffed by people and free-form urban parks; these are the everyday yet invaluable spaces that allow for human encounters that enrich our lives. Field writes with tenderness and wit - born out of twenty years as a performance artist creating scenarios in which people are encouraged to see and interact with each other afresh. In Encounterism he not only examines how we physically encounter both strangers and friends - in all our human grace and awkwardness - but builds to a manifesto for the importance of real-world interaction. A rousing reminder that our cities, our residential and work places, must still allow for the possibility of spontaneity and shared, in-person joy.
£17.09
Peacock Press Isaac Milburn the Northumbrian Bonesetter
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