History of architecture Books

Book SynopsisHonourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact state-society relations. They are materially and symbolically interwoven with the everyday lives of elites and citizens, as well global flows of money, goods, and contracts. Yet, to date, there has been no research that explicitly connects debates about Africa's domestic and international politics with the study of architecture. This innovative book fills this gap, providing a new and compelling reading of the politics of identity in sub-Saharan Africa through an examination of some of its most significant buildings. Using case studies from nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa, this volume reveals how they are commissioned and built, how they enable elites to project power, and how they form a basis for popular conceptions of the state. Exploring a diverse range of buildings including parliaments, airports, prisons, ministries, regional institutions, libraries, universities, shopping malls, public housing, cathedrals and palaces, the contributors suggest a innovative perspective on African politics, identity and urban development. This book will be a compelling reference for scholars and students of African politics, development studies and city life in its elaboration of and challenges to established concepts and arguments about the relationship between material objects and political ideas. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.Trade ReviewEmploying an interdisciplinary approach, the volume reflects diverse methodological approaches and draws on different theoretical traditions in its analyses. The result is an empirically rich collection of cases, underscored by a sophisticated theoretical framework that allows for rich insights into power, agency, resistance and identity. * SURVIVAL *The essays continually reinforce one another through generous cross-reference, giving the volume an effortless continuity and thematic support. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher PART 1: MAKING 1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansion Joanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew 2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedral Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong 3. China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains Innocent Batsani-Ncube 4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmes Irene Appeaning Addo PART 2: LIVING 5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'Ivoire Julia Gallagher and Yah Ariane Bernadette N'djoré 6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's village in Harare Tonderai Koschke 7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public libraries Marie Gibert 8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era Yusuf Patel PART 3: IMAGINING 9. Pan-African imaginations: The AU building and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria Daniel Mulugeta 10. Asantean Noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase Tony Yeboah 11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria Laura Routley Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures Kuukuwa Manful Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReligion in Britain after the Reformation was remarkably unstable and places of worship were the focus of dispute and regular change. This book is the first substantial synoptic account of Nonconformist church architecture in England and aims to provide a history of Nonconformist architecture, using existing buildings wherever possible. It includes examples from the 17th century to the present day, covering all parts of the country and each of the main religious traditions within Nonconformity. Despite the loss of very large numbers of chapels in the past half-century, there are still around 20,000 Nonconformist congregations in England. The book includes some of the smallest wayside chapels as well as some grand urban structures and aims to mention the most influential Nonconformist buildings as well as giving examples of the most common types. These examples are set in the architectural, religious and cultural context of the development of English Nonconformity. The chronological arrangement allows the reader to follow the main architectural development in the Nonconformist world The range and varied nature of the architecture is illustrated with new photographs of both interiors and exteriors. Trade Review... heroic publishing milestone: ... The book and the endeavour deserve a medal for no previous work has begun to approximate to its comprehensive coverage, the lusciousness of the photographs, the authority of the scholarship and the delicacy of the English. * AMS Newsletter, Autumn 2017 *Historic England is to be congratulated upon this beautifully produced and illustrated volume in which many of the striking photographs are drawn from HE's own archives. Dr Wakeling's expert knowledge of the subject is displayed to excellent advantage as he describes the development of chapels in the context of the religious and political circumstances of the times. -- Donald Ryan * The Chapels Society Newsletter, 67, January 2018 *... Christopher Wakeling's text balances understanding with clarity; and is illustrated by new colour images by a crack team of photographers at Historic England. Together, text and images make for a must-have volume for anyone interested in the topic. -- Roland Jeffery * Historic Chapels Trust Newsletter, Autumn 2017 *... a clear, wide-ranging, and nuanced account of dissenting architecture in England, from the beginnings to today. ... Christopher Wakeling's fine book, lavishly illustrated, clearly written, and underpinned by deep research, brings the story up to date, with a good selection of 20th-century chapels in styles from expressionistic Gothic to modernist. It does an excellent job of bringing all these buildings and the religious motivation for constructing them to life, illustrating their best points, and delineating some sort of pattern to the complex story of nonconformist architecture, a story that is also one of heterodoxy and variety. -- Philip Wilkinson * English Buildings, November 2017 *This long awaited volume is ground-breaking in many ways, not least in carrying the story of non-conformist churches and chapels into the 20th century and beyond, moving beyond the usual charming Quaker meeting houses, Unitarian and Methodist chapels and mission halls in industrial towns. -- Robert Drake * C20 Magazine, 2018, No. 1 *... a beautifully illustrated scholarly account of the patterns of chapel buildings amongst all branches of nonconformity from separatist, pre-ejection times up to the twenty-first century. ... it is a tremendously impressive guide to what is a complicated and diffuse subject. ... but the whole book is an impressively thorough examination of the development of different styles of buildings as theologies changed, as denominations developed, as political circumstances evolved and as economic opportunity came and went. ... Historic England should be commended for producing such an impressive book, it is destined to become an essential publication for anyone with an interest in this aspect of religious history. -- David Steers * Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, Volume 26, No. 4, April 2018 *... It is a truly magnificent book with chapters arranged chronologically from the reformation down to the present day. ...Historic England deserves high praise for commissioning such a distinguished scholar and presenting his informative analysis in such an attractive form. It deserves a wide readership. -- Malcolm Airs, Kellogg College, Oxford * Context 155, July 2018 *'Chapels of England' provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview to date of English Protestant Nonconformity's places of worship ...Wakeling's fine book take the buildings and synthesises his rich knowledge of both architecture and Nonconformist history and theology to review and explain individual buildings, the wider contexts from which they arise, and the broader patterns of which they are part. -- Kate Tiller * Family and Community History, 21:2, 129-141K *The first chapter provides an excellent introduction to the history of nonconformist worship in Britain, highlighting battles for worship space in parish churches between those of different religious persuasions. ... This book is an eye opener to an otherwise little-recorded subject and Dr Wakeling, former President of the Chapels Society, has certainly produced the definitive book on the subject. -- John Vigar * The Journal of Stained Glass, The Glass House Special Issue, Vol XLI, 2017 *Overall this is a compelling volume, which will be a valuable reference point for future scholars of English Nonconformity and religious architecture in general. ... Wakeling offers a rich study, which cautions against attempts to make generalisations about English Nonconformity. ... With its engaging illustrations, 'Chapels of England' successfully unpacks the architectural complexities of these diverse movements. -- Paul Holden * Architectural History 61: 2018 *Table of Contents1. Dissenters and places of worship before 1689 2. The Age of Toleration 3. Enthusiasm and enlightenment 4. The Age of Methodism 5. Growth and renewal 1820–50 6. The Age of Pluralism: 1850–90 7. 1890–1914: The Nonconformist heyday? 8. Chapels since 1914

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first overview of Muslim architecture in Britain, from the earliest examples in the late 19th century, to mosques being built today. Key architectural stages are identified and explained alongside the social history of Muslim settlement and growth. The analysis focuses on the way in which the mosque as a new cultural and architectural form has benefitted into the existing urban fabric of Britain’s towns and cities, and how this new building type has then impacted its urban landscape, socially, culturally and architecturally. The British Mosque is an architectural as well as a social history, and describes the evolution of Britain’s Muslim communities through the buildings they have built. By presenting this architectural narrative for the first time, the book opens up a new field of British Islamic Architecture. The architectural story charts a course from the earliest mosques formed through the conversion of houses, to other large scale conversions through to purpose built mosques and with these the emergence of an Islamic architectural expression in Britain. As the mosque is not solely considered in terms of its architectural style, but also from its social history and cultural meaning, this book provides an observation into the character of British Muslim life and practice and how these have been embodied through its buildings. The future of Islamic architecture in Britain is also considered, and how this will be affected by the growing cultural and social diversification of Britain’s Muslim communities.Trade ReviewThis book is a major contribution to architectural history ad to wider cultural understanding. ... 'The British Mosque' is a fascinating book, and fills a major gap int he architectural history of these islands. -- Philip Wilkinson * English Buildings Blog *Architect Shahed Saleem's marvellous 'The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History', is an indispensable guide to Britain's approximately 1,300 mosques. -- Ed Husain * The Spectator *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction – mosques and Muslims in Britain 2 The first mosques 3 Adaptation and transformation – a new era of mosque-making 4 Building mosques – new identities, new architecture 5 Making Muslim landmarks and institutions 6 New century, new historicism 7 New narratives 8 Surveying the landscape – 130 years of the mosque in Britain Appendix 1 Selected additional examples of a) house mosques, b) conversions from other places of worship, c) conversions from public buildings and other building types, and d) purpose-built mosques Appendix 2 Maps of three areas of the UK showing mosque locations overlaid with the density of the Muslim population and levels of social deprivation Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe arrival of aerial photography came at a particularly significant moment in terms of the visual appearance of England. This selection of photographs makes use of the Aerofilms collection, acquired by English Heritage in 2007 and subsequently digitised and made available on the Britain from Above website. When Aerofilms fliers first went up in the skies in 1919, they captured a country that, with the obvious exception of some large scale structures such as aircraft hangers and munitions factories, had more or less been preserved in aspic in 1914. What we are looking at in many of the earliest photographs in this book is essentially Edwardian England, with towns and villages generally quite compact, with fields reaching almost up to the High Streets in many cases, and little sign of the sprawl that was to engulf them in the 1920s and 30s. The streets of many towns, especially the seaside resorts that provided the aerial photographers with many of their earliest subjects, have an orderly, almost pristine appearance to them, with the Victorian and Edwardian houses undisturbed by any out of place redevelopment. The purpose of this book is to show just how radically that position changed over the ensuing half century. We trace the outward expansion of places brought about by the availability of the car: the new suburbs and ribbon development. We see how new arterial roads came into being to meet the needs of motor transport and how the centre of cities start to be rebuilt to accommodate it. We witness the growth of sprawl around road junctions on the edge of built up areas and the arrival of new types of building there to service both cars and people: the filling station, the roadhouse. We see how the car encouraged more people to go further afield for sport and pleasure: to the seaside, the races or to new forms of attractions such as the amusement park in the country. And we see how public transport changes over the period from trams to buses with the advent of new facilities such as bus stations. The scale of traffic congestion becomes apparent by the late 1930s. In addition, the impact on the landscape of large motor factories and provision for motor sport is made clear.Trade ReviewIt's a lovely b/w trip back in time and beautifully set out, letting the images tell the story.Classic MotoringThis is a novel as well as instructive look at a previously neglected area of English motoring history, and is highly recommended.The AutomobileThis is an excellent glimpse into the unique archive that is the Aerofilms Collection and I commend it to anyone interested in our motoring heritage. If it doesn't send you scurrying to the Britain from the Air website I'll eat my flying helmet!Geoff Lancaster, Society of Automotive Historians in BritainThe quality of reproduction is excellent ... for the quality of production offered this book represents good value.Paul Lacey, Roads: Road Transport History AssociationIt really is an outstanding social history with each full-page picture telling more than the 1,000 proverbial words ...This EnglandTable of ContentsPreface Introduction England at the dawn of popular motoring Trams and tram depots Bus stations, garages and workshops Motor vehicle factories Garages and filling stations Out for the day By the seaside The growth of motorised suburbia The new roads Rebuilding the cities New towns, smaller towns and suburbs in the 1960s Towards the motorway age

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Book SynopsisJohn Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. As the man responsible for the creation of Regent Street and Regent’s Park, he left an indelible mark on the West End of London, and his two most famous buildings – the Brighton Pavilion and Buckingham Palace – are crucial to any understanding of the monarchy in the age of the Prince Regent (later George IV). Yet, even before he became involved in these ambitious projects, he made a major contribution to domestic architecture through the design of a series of stylistically varied villas, country houses and cottages in which he applied the doctrines of the Picturesque with an inventiveness and panache that has rarely been surpassed. No complete study of Nash’s work has been published since Sir John Summerson’s, The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect in 1980. Since then, new scholarship has revised some of Summerson’s conclusions and cast new light on several important aspects of Nash’s work. The aim of this book – which originated in a symposium held by the Georgian Group in September 2009 – is to bring together this recent scholarship in a single volume, and so bring this most engaging of architects to a new generation of readers. Trade Review'Underpinned with a great deal of new research, this book offers a refreshing reappraisal of Nash and authoritatively sets out his impressive architectural achievement'The book is outstandingly well illustrated, with a full range of colour photographs, numerous historic photographs and plans from the archives of English Heritage, and liverla use of engravings published in the 1820s and 30s which presented Nash's new London buildings in the most glamerous way possible. -- John Newman * Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 58 *The format means that the book can be dipped into and the illustrations enjoyed, but it is also easy to read as a whole or by treating chapters as individual essays. -- Kate Andrew * SPAB, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Autumn 2014 *Table of Contents1. Before Fame and Fortune: the Early Years - Richard Suggett 2. Herefordshire and the Repton connection - David Whitehead 3. Nash and the Castle Style - Geoffrey Tyack 4. Sandridge Park: a Villa Rustica in Devon - Rosemary Yallop 5. John Nash: property developer - James Anderson 6. Nash and structural innovation - Jon Clarke 7. John Nash and the Genesis of Regents Park - J. Mordaunt Crook 8. Pavilion and Palace: Nash’s work for George IV - Michael Port 9. Nash in a British and Continental Context - David Watkin

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Book SynopsisAlston Moor is a large rural parish in Cumbria which historically both depended upon and provided important services for the agricultural and mineral industries of the North Pennines.Much of the area's settlement is dispersed among hamlets and single farmsteads. Isolated from major northern cities such as Carlisle and Newcastle by the surrounding hills and moors, the parish's wild upland landscape provides a conditioning influence on a distinctive tradition of vernacular building types, ranging from the bastle to its later 18th- and 19th-century derivatives and 'mine shops' providing lodgings for miners close to their place of work. Found across the parish, and with urban variants present in Alston itself, these buildings have in common first-floor living accommodation whilst the ground floor is used for cow-byres in more rural areas and for general storage, workshops and shops in urban and industrial contexts. This development of the bastle, a fortified house type found on both sides of the Anglo-Saxon border is nationally significant yet remains under-examined at the level of architectural and historical synthesis. This publication presents an informed account of Alston Moor's vernacular buildings from their earliest survival onwards, and sets them within their regional and national context. It explores how houses of various types combine with a rich legacy of public and industrial buildings to create places of distinctive character. It takes a whole-landscape view of the area, relating its buildings and settlements to the wider patterns of landscape evolution resulting from agricultural and industrial activity and the development of communications.Trade ReviewThis is a beautiful book, richly illustrated to English Heritage's usual high standard. As Simon Thurley says in his foreword, 'Alston Moor is a very special place'. It can appear cold, wet and bleak but the superb photographs let the reader glimpse the magical quality of its landscape. -- Angus Winchester * Landscape History, Vol 35, 2014, Issue 1 *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Agrarian Alston Moor, 1130-1770 3. The transformation of Alston Moor 1770-1882 4. Decline and diversification, 1882-1949 5. Regeneration and conservation, 1950 to the present Notes References and further reading

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating survey ranges from the communal buildings of the early 19th-century political radicals, Owenites and Chartists, through Arts and Crafts influenced socialist structures of the late Victorian and Edwardian period to the grand union `castles’ of the mid twentieth century. There are also chapters on the ubiquitous co-operative architecture, long forgotten socialist holiday camps, and those memorials associated with the hidden story of radical ex-servicemen and their remembrance of war dead. The countryside is also not forgotten with rural labour buildings, as well as the clubhouses of idealistic socialist cyclists. The book though is not just about bricks and mortar but uncovers the social history of the men and women who worked so hard locally to achieve their goals. Though many buildings have been lost over the years, the book outlines the recent struggle for their preservation and details many which can still be visited. Trade Review'well-written and beautifully illustrated'... little has so far been written directly about the subject, and for this reason alone this book is very welcome. -- Cynthia Brown * Family & Community History, Vol 17/1 *Buildings of the Labour Movement has a plethora of excellent photos, and some equally interesting written snapshots to support them. ... One thing is certain; this book provides both a visual treat and some equally important historical nuggets. Its insights are informative and form an important addition to the history of the Labour Movement. -- Dave Putson * Problems of NATO edited by Tony Simpson, The Spokesman, 124 *... a much needed and very welcome addition to the literature of the labour movement. Whilst the book is essential for its wonderful and evocative collection of photographs, it is much more than a picture book ... ... This book is a delight to browse through as well as to read, and Mansfield is to be congratulated in writing it and English Heritage for publishing such an important text. -- Eddie Cass * Manchester Region History Review *Nick Mansfield's book is a welcome and important development in the study of the built environment used by the people of the labour and radical movements. With the publication of this significant volume it is hoped a neglected area of research and publication will receive much wider attention. Highly recommended. -- Bob Hayes * North West Labour History Journal *Yet, thankfully, Mansfield's new book captures the remarkable history of those lost buildings and, in so doing, opens up a series of characteristically learned and sympathetic insights into the history of socialism. As the former director of The Peoples' History Museum and one of Britain's finest social historians, Mansfield is a superb guide to this otherwise abandoned field of architectural and labour history. -- Tristram Hunt * Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Volume 59 (2015) *Table of ContentsForeword by Tony Benn Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Trade Societies 3. Nonconformity 4. Radicalism 5. Owenism 6. Chartism 7. Co-operation 8. Trade Unions 9. Mechanics Institutes and Education 10. Socialism 11. The Clarion movement 12. The Labour Party 13. The rural labour movement 14. Ex-servicemen and the commemoration of war 15. Holidays and leisure 16. Buildings associated with key events 17. Decline and demolition 18. Preservation and interpretation 19. Sites to visit

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of conference papers which explore a topic that has received a good deal of interest in recent years, namely the material culture of the country house and its presentation to the public. This links in with academic interest in the consumption practices of the elite, and in the country house as a lived and living space, which was consciously transformed according to fashion and personal taste; but also ties in well with our concern as curators to present a coherent narrative of English Heritage and other properties and their contents to the modern visitor. The proceedings address a number of current academic debates about elite consumption practices, and the role of landed society as arbiters of taste. By looking at the country house as lived space many of the papers throw up interesting questions about the accumulation and arrangement of objects; the way in which rooms were used and experienced by both owners and visitors, and how this sense of `living history’ can be presented meaningfully to the public. The conference was international in scope, so the experience in the United Kingdom can be compared with that in other European countries, throwing new light on our understanding of consumption and the country house. Trade ReviewThis is an impressive collection of essays about country houses and the ways their inhabitants furnished them and bought the other things they needed and wanted. * English Buidings Blogspot *There is very much more to ponder and enjoy in this well-illustrated and thoroughly researched book and as it is packed with interesting references I suspect that it will not gather dust on the bookshelf. -- David Brown * Landscape History, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2017 *... It is a superb book, not only because of the quality of the illustrations and production, but because it provide new insights on the development of the country estate within the context of an increasingly materialistic nation. -- Janice Gooch * Context 150, July 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Jon Stobart The country house and cultures of consumption Section 1: Elites, consumption and the country house 1. Yme Kuiper - The rise of the country house in the Dutch Republic: beyond Johan Huizinga’s narrative of Dutch civilisation in the 17th century 2. Jane Whittle - The gentry as consumers in early 17th-century England 3. Johanna Ilmakunnas - To build according to one’s status: a country house in late 18th-century Sweden 4. Mark Rothery and Jon Stobart - Geographies of supply: Stoneleigh Abbey and Arbury Hall in the 18th century 5. Shelley Garland - The use of French architectural design books in De Grey's choice of style at Wrest Park Section 2: Continuity, heritage and the country house 6. Hannah Chavasse - Fashion and `affectionate recollection’: material culture at Audley End, 1762–1773 7. Hanneke Ronnes - A sense of heritage: renewal versus preservation in the English and Dutch palaces of William III in the 18th century 8. Victor Hugo López Borges - An Anglo-Irish country house in Spain: the Palacio de Castrelos Section 3: Eastern connections, adoptions and imitations 9. Emile de Bruijn - Consuming East Asia: continuity and change in the development of chinoiserie 10. Kate Smith - Imperial objects? Country house interiors in 18th-century Britain 11. Patricia F Ferguson - `Japan China’ taste and elite ceramic consumption in 18th-century England: revising the narrative 12. Helen Clifford - `Conquests from North to South’: The Dundas property empire. New wealth, constructing status and the role of `India’ goods in the British country house. Section 4: Country house interiors as lived spaces 13. Rosie MacArthur - Settling into the country house: the Hanburys at Kelmarsh Hall 14. Susan Jenkins - Fashion and function: the decoration of the library at Kenwood in context 15. Karol Mullaney- Dignam Useless and extravagant? The consumption of music in the Irish country house 16. Annie Gray - Broccoli, bunnies and beef: supplying the edible wants of the Victorian country house Section 5: Presenting the country house 17. Nicola Pickering M- ayer Amschel de Rothschild and Mentmore Towers: displaying `le goût Rothschild’ 18. Anna McEvoy - Following in the footsteps of 18th-century tourists: the visitor experience at Stowe over 300 years 19. Karen Fielder - X marks the spot: narratives of a lost country house

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Book SynopsisBeer has been brewed in England since Neolithic times, and this book combines a thoroughly enjoyable exploration of beer’s history and built heritage with new in-depth research into the nuts and bolts of its production. Based around England’s breweries, but occasionally ranging further afield, it tells the intriguing story of the growth of this significant industry. From Georgian brewing magnates who became household names – and their brewhouses notable tourist attractions – through magnificently ornate Victorian towers to the contemporary resurgence of microbreweries, the text throws new light on brewers and the distinctive architecture of their buildings. Detailed chapters explain what makes a brewery work, revealing the functions of sometimes enormous brewing vessels, the astonishing skills of coppersmiths and engineers, the work of heroic mill horses and the innovative steam engines which replaced them. The wider context of the brewing industry is also investigated, bringing out the breadth of the `beerscape’, including those buildings put up with brewing profits such as the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. A brewery index allows readers to find which sites are extant and can still be visited. Traditional working breweries are to be treasured and celebrated, but complementing these, the book looks to the future, considering constructive redevelopment as part of our national brewing heritage. This fascinating and lavishly illustrated work shows how deeply interwoven beer and brewing are within English culture. If you care about beer, industry or England, this book is for you. Trade ReviewA fascinating insight, which links up neatly with economic history, such as that developed by Mathias, and begins to give us a stronger basis for understanding the growth of the industry ... * Brewery History Society, July 2014 *This is not just a technical reference book; it is a highly readable account of how over history our beer has been provided and the people and buildings that have played their part. I recommend it without reservation. -- Tony Hedger * London Drinker, August 2014 *This is a facinating insight, which links up neatly with economic history, ... and begins to give us a stronger basis for understanding the growth of the brewing industry. -- Mike Brown * Brewery History, Journal of the Brewery History Society (2014) 157, 90-98 *Lynn Pearson has produced a rather fine book covering both the history and heritage of brewing in the UK. * Nottingham Drinker, (CAMRA), August 2014 *This is an impressive, well researched book with a wealth of detailed information and a huge number of illustrations. ... Lynn Pearson's writing and English Heritage's presentation have come together to create a visually stunning and enjoyable read. Outstanding. -- Martin Ellis * Cannybevvy, Issue 229, Autumn 2014 *Few industries enjoy as much public affection as brewing, and with small-scale operations enjoying a renaissance across the United Kingdom, Lynn Pearson provides a timely review of its ups and downs. ... Like all English Heritage books, much of the value of 'Built to Brew' lies in its many illustrations. -- Dominic Lenton * Engineering and Technology (E&T) Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 10, November 2014 *Built to Brew provides a wealth of detail on the history and development of the brewing industry and its associated structures. It will form the basis for many different in-depth studies. -- Amber Patrick * Industrial Archaeology Review, 36, 2, November 2014 *Built to Brew is perhaps written as a record rather than as literature, but it is indispensable on that level and is very generously illustrated with contemporary and historic photographs and drawings. Whether the readers' interest is in production or comsumption, Built to Brew offers a comprehensive guide to the processes of brewing, the engineering and architecture of breweries, and the wider effects of brewing on the historic built environment. -- Michael Taylor * Context 137, November 2014 *An immaculately produced history of English beer production, its brewers, architecture, technology. geography and brewery landscape. Illustrations on every page, references, bibliography, sites index, as well as a reflection on the re-use possibilities for these complex and specialized sites. * TICCIH Bulletin No. 67, 1st quarter 2015 *...every page is worth reading for the often fascinating insights that Lynn Pearson's research has revealed. The book itself is a visual delight. -- Marilyn Palmer * English Heritage Historical Review, Volume 9, 2014 *Table of Contents Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Prologue: Beer 2. The Emergence of the Brewery 3. The Development of the Brewery 4. Designing and Planning the Brewery 5. Inside the Brewery 6. Powering the Brewery 7. Burton upon Trent – Beer Capital of Britain 8. Beyond the Brewery 9. The Industry’s Buildings Today Notes Illustration Credits Bibliography Glossary Brewery Index Geographical Index General Index

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Book SynopsisRobert Adam is perhaps the best known of all British architects, the only one whose name denotes both a style and an era. The new decorative language he introduced at Kedleston and Syon around 1760 put him at the forefront of dynamic changes taking place in 18th-century British architecture. His later claim that his practice with his brother James had effected ‘a kind of revolution’ in design was no idle boast. Their style dominated the later Georgian period and their influence was widespread, not only in Western Europe but in Russia and North America. But for such a well-known figure, much of Robert Adam’s art still remains poorly understood. This new study, based on papers given at a Georgian Group symposium in 2015, looks afresh at many aspects of the Adam brothers’ oeuvre, such as interior planning, their use of colour, the influence of classical sources, their involvement in the art market, town planning and building speculation, and Robert Adam’s late picturesque drawings and castle designs – all within the context of the Adam family background and their personal and working relationships. The Scottish architecture of Robert and James’s older brother, John, is also assessed. There are essays by established Adam experts as well as contributions from a younger generation of historians and postdoctoral scholars, one of the book’s aims being to stimulate further research on the Adams’ contribution to British architecture, art and design. Trade ReviewReviews'The publication of new research by a number of top scholars in the field will help architects and general enthusiasts alike to approach [the story of the Adam brothers and the role of Robert] with fresh understanding. This book, subtitled New light on Britain's leading architectural family, links a number of important strands and makes for compelling reading.'Jeremy Musson, Country Life'Despite the vast quantity of existing work on the Adam Brothers - John, Robert, James, and William - this brilliantly edited volume treads a new path in the field of Adam Studies [...] The individually authored and thematically focused chapters explore a range of topics from the collecting and dealing of antiques to architectural style, planning, and construction - offering a wide range and also extremely detailed fresh looks at the Adam architectural family.'Sydney Ayers, HBA 'In addition to the articles on medievalism... Editor Colin Thom supplies an extended “Introduction” that offers a lucid and valuable overview of this fascinating family and their accomplishments, not only in Scotland, but in the wider world.'William S. Rodner, Scotia'It is the type of thought provoking study which makes this excellent publication a fine addition to research into the Adams’ contribution to British Architecture.' Niall Murphy, Scottish society for Art History‘This book should surely encourage all lovers of eighteenth-century architecture and decoration to see […] Adam buildings with new eyes and better-informed sensibilities.’ Geoffrey Tyack, The GeorgianTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Some promising young men’: Robert Adam and his brothersColin Thom1. Johnnie, the eldest Adam BrotherAlistair Rowan2. 'Antique Mad': the Adams as dealers and their stock of AntiquitiesJonathan Yarker3. Context and Attribution: Antonio Zucchi's Portrait of James Adam (1763)Jerzy J. Kierkuc-Bielinski4. 'The true style of antique decoration': Agostino Brunias and the birth of the Adam style at Kedleston Hall and Syon HouseAdriano Aymonino5. Robert Adam's Scenographic InteriorsMiranda Hausberg6. Design by Correspondence: Robert Adam and Headfort HouseConor Lucey7. A 'Classical Goth': Robert Adam's engagement with medieval architecturePeter N. Lindfield8. The Ingenious Mr AdamDavid King9. The Adam Brothers and Portland Place: A reassessmentColin Thom10. Temporal sublime: Robert Adam's castle style and geology in the Scottish EnlightenmentMarrikka Trotter11. 'The Parent Style or the Original Sin': The Adam revival in AmericaEileen Harris

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Book SynopsisHow do you find out about historic buildings and places? A good place to start is with visual evidence. Original drawings, topographical views, surveys, maps, photographs and other historic visual sources help to build up an understanding of how a building or location appears the way it does today. Interpreting such material requires knowledge of historic design and mapping conventions, the place of the drawings in the construction process, the methods and techniques used to create engraved or topographical views, and the equipment and processes used in photography at particular times. In Historical Visual Sources: a guide to understanding the historic built environment the authors – professional architectural and art historians – explain the provenance, purpose and terminology of a range of visual sources from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and how they can help – or sometimes hinder – an understanding of the original form and subsequent changes to a building, site or landscape. In addition, they list the most widely used archives, such as the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, and online and published databases of historic visual sources. This book will be of particular interest to historic buildings professionals, archaeologists, conservation architects, students of architectural history, and those involved in the preparation of conservation plans. More widely, it is hoped that the visual sources discussed and listed here may open a new and rich vein of material to different kinds of historians, genealogists, educators, students and authors.Trade ReviewReviews'Having worked in archives I thought I was knowledgeable regarding the variety of visual sources available to researchers, but this book opened my eyes [...] Accompanied by clear illustrations, this book was a pleasure to read [...] This book will be particularly useful to historic buildings professionals, archaeologists, conservation architects, architectural history students, and those preparing conservation plans.' Rachel Broomfield, The SPAB Magazine (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings)'Readable, concise and well-illustrated, it draws on the combined knowledge of a number of former and current Historic England staff to explain the optimum methods of research and investigation.' Context, the Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation'Overall, it is a remarkable achievement to have packed so much into under 100 pages. The editor and contributors are to be congratulated in producing a valuable research guide. Had a volume like this been available 30 years ago, when I started studying buildings, it would have been greatly appreciated.' - David Cant, Vernacular ArchitectureTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Architectural drawings 2. Maps and mapping conventions 3. Topographical views 4. Additional visual sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the seafront, the space between the seaward ends of seaside piers and the first line of buildings. The seafront is a place that is familiar yet unfamiliar, predictable but exciting, natural but artificial. It is a place to live, work and play, a site for commemoration and remembrance. It is ever-changing, depending on the time of day, the state of the tides and the month of the year. And how we perceive it will be shaped by our age, our gender and our childhood memories. The Seafront describes a highly complex space that has been created, recreated and adapted over the past 300 years. It tells the story of seaside holidays and how the arrival of increasing numbers of tourists transformed natural coastline into the man-made environments of modern resorts. Themes examined range from the engineering of sea defences, to the provision of tourism infrastructure and from facilities for sea bathing to the fun factories and fun fairs of the 20th century. The many and diverse aspects of its history, geography, character, function and meaning will be explored and while this study will inevitably focus on the tangible, both natural and man-made, it will also seek to capture something of the spiritual and cultural character of the seafront, is activities, people and memories.Trade Review‘Generously illustrated from both historical and present-day sources, Allan Brodie’s The Seafront covers the British waterfront in all its glorious architectural eclecticism. His infectious but scholarly enthusiasm for the seaside embraces Regency elegance, mid-twentieth-century kitsch, and such outbursts of contemporary boldness as Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Café at Littlehampton. The boo is a fascinating blend of social and architectural history that makes one look again at our rich littoral heritage.’ Peter Parker, A MagazineTable of Contents1. Welcome to the Seafront 2. Three Centuries of Seaside Holidays 3. The Geography of the Seafront 4. The Working Life of the Seafront 5. Preparing for Tourists 6. The Pursuit of Health 7. Fun and Games 8. New Technology and Fun 9. The Buildings of the Seafront 10. A Civic and Cultural Space 11. Challenges facing the Seafront

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Book SynopsisThe Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings, portraits, engravings and photographs this book tells the fascinating story of its creation, which took more than thirty years, and describes its subsequent place within Oxford University. Dr John Radcliffe was the most successful physician of his day. On his death in 1713 he directed that part of his large fortune should be used to build a library on a site at the heart of Oxford, between the University Church of St Mary’s and the Bodleian. Early designs were made by the brilliant architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, who outlined the shape so familiar today: a great rotunda surmounted by Oxford’s only dome. It would take decades to acquire and clear the site, and after Hawksmoor’s death in 1736 the project was taken over by the Scottish architect James Gibbs, who refined the designs and supervised the construction of ‘Dr Radcliffe’s Library’, creating, in the process, an architectural masterpiece and Britain’s first circular library.Trade Review'Sitting in the middle of the open space in front of St Mary's Church is the magnificent layered octagon that is the Radcliffe Camera. Stephen Hebron has produced the best account so far on its construction, replete with delay and confusion.' * Ancient Monuments Society Newsletter *

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Book SynopsisDuring the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way in which disciplines developed: architecture could be communicated much more clearly, mathematical concepts and astronomical observations could be quickly relayed, observations of the natural world moved towards a more realistic method of depiction. Through essays on some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers (Leonardo da Vinci, Euclid, Andreas Vesalius, William Hunter, Johannes Kepler, Andrea Palladio, Galileo Galilei, among many others), this book tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media. It features Leonardo da Vinci’s groundbreaking drawings in his notebooks and other manuscripts, extraordinary anatomical illustrations, early paper engineering including volvelles and tabs, beautiful architectural plans and even views of the moon. With in-depth analysis of over forty manuscripts and books, 'Thinking 3D' also reveals the impact that developing techniques had on artists and draughtsmen throughout time and across space.

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Book SynopsisLeonard Manasseh was an `architect’s architect’, greatly admired by his contemporaries both on a personal and professional level. He came to prominence at the Festival of Britain and went on to be one of the leading British architects of the 1960s, designing private houses and offices as well as major public commissions. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, architect and architectural historian at the University of Kent, describes how the work of Leonard Manasseh and Partners expresses one of the central themes of the 1950s and 1960s – the apparent conflict between the architect as creative artist on one hand, and as rational technologist and scientist on the other. Leonard Manasseh and his partner Ian Baker were lauded for producing modernist designs that were in keeping with their historical settings or landscapes. Examples include industrial buildings in rural settings, a study for King’s Lynn, undertaken with architect-planner Elizabeth Chesterton, and the project that is most commonly associated with the practice, the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Lavishly illustrated with images from Manasseh’s private archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and the Twentieth Century Society.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Foundations 2. Parterre 3. Piano Nobile 4. Loggia 5. Cornice 6. Skyline List of Works Bibliography Index Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisLong overdue: Revised, updated, freshly-illustrated Edinburgh joins the Companion Guide series, informative on Edinburgh's - and Scotland's - past and present. Edinburgh is one of Europe's most elegant and cosmopolitan cities, the Old Town rebuilt on the medieval street plan after being burned down by the English in 1544, and the eighteenth-century classical New Town more extensive thananything else of its kind in Europe. Edinburgh was the capital of an independent kingdom for more than two hundred and fifty years, and it has the air of a capital, with buildings where kings were born or where some of their moreprominent subjects were assassinated, streets once trodden by Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a rich artistic life that comes into exhilarating full flower in August with the Edinburgh Festival. Edinburgh is also the gateway to some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Britain: lying southward is the romantic landscape of the Borders, where Alexander Youngson is an admirable guide to the ruined abbeys, the castles thathave withstood countless sieges, and the great houses still owned by families 'that the Flood could not wash away'. A.J. YOUNGSON is former chairman of the Fine Art Commission for Scotland.Trade ReviewThis is an essential guide for understanding Edinburgh and the Borders[....]The Companion Guides are more than guide books. They are armchair travel books as well, full of fascinating anecdotes that make entertaining and informative reading. Edinburgh and the Borders is no exception. It is a comprehensive and all-inclusive resource. * BRITAIN EXPRESS.COM *Ideal companion for any visitor; residents will realise how much they take the city for granted. Beautifully produced updated edition of a classic guide. * THE DAILY YOMIURI *A revised, updated version of a classic by the historian of Edinburgh's New Town. * NORTHERN HISTORY *Table of ContentsPart 1 Edinburgh: the castle; the Royal mile I; the Royal mile II; Hollyrood House and the Abbey; from the Cowgate to the Meadows; from the university to George Square; Princes Street; the Mound; the Calton Hill; from Charlotte Square to St Andrew Square; Queen Street to the Moray Estate; the northern New Town; the Dean Bridge, Dean Village and the western New Town; Stockbridge and the Botanic Gardens; outer Edinburgh, west; outer Edinburgh, south; from Holyrood House to Craigmillar Castle; Cramond, the Forth Bridge and Hopetoun House; Leith. Part 2 East Lothian. Part 3 The borders: the borders - and to Peebles and the Tweed via Eddleston; to Kelso and the Tweed via Lauder; to Berwick-upon-Tweed via Gifford and the Lammermuirs; to Berwick-upon-Tweed via the coast; from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Kelso; from Kelso to Melrose; from Melrose to Peebles; from Peebles to St Mary's Loch and Selkirk; from Selkirk to Hawick to Jedburgh; the deep south - Carter bar, west and east.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the classical Greek house through the lens of contemporary Western notions of the household, Janett Morgan provides a fresh evaluation of what ‘home’ meant to different communities in the ancient Greek world. By employing textual analysis alongside archaeological scholarship her book seeks to explain some of the contradictions that previous, more simplistic approaches have left unanswered. Of value to students and academics alike, Morgan’s work gives an exciting new perspective on relations between men and women, between public and private, and between home and city in the ancient world.Trade ReviewThis book will make a major contribution to the study of the Greek [house]. The author . . . goes a long way in calling for a new methodological approach to sifting through the source materials for house and household structure in Greece. Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesTable of Contents Introduction 1. House and City, Public and Private: The Urban Landscape 2. House as Home: Viewing the Classical Greek House 3. The Family at Home 4. Working from Home: House and Economy 5. Gender Ideology and the Cassical House 6. Religion and the Classical House Conclusions Glossary of Terms Further Reading Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the classical Greek house through the lens of contemporary Western notions of the household, Janett Morgan provides a fresh evaluation of what ‘home’ meant to different communities in the ancient Greek world. By employing textual analysis alongside archaeological scholarship her book seeks to explain some of the contradictions that previous, more simplistic approaches have left unanswered. Of value to students and academics alike, Morgan’s work gives an exciting new perspective on relations between men and women, between public and private, and between home and city in the ancient world.Trade ReviewThis book will make a major contribution to the study of the Greek [house]. The author . . . goes a long way in calling for a new methodological approach to sifting through the source materials for house and household structure in Greece. Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesTable of Contents Introduction 1. House and City, Public and Private: The Urban Landscape 2. House as Home: Viewing the Classical Greek House 3. The Family at Home 4. Working from Home: House and Economy 5. Gender Ideology and the Cassical House 6. Religion and the Classical House Conclusions Glossary of Terms Further Reading Bibliography

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Book SynopsisArchitectural and historical surveys of many of the most important buildings in Lincoln. This volume illuminates the development of different building styles in timber, stone and brick over a period of 750 years, in one of the oldest areas of Lincoln. High quality and detailed architectural drawings are accompanied by documentary accounts which explain the historical context, and tell some of the fascinating and tragic stories of the people who lived and worked there from the mid-twelfth century until the First World War, including the medieval Jewish community. Steep Hill is already internationally regarded for the quality of its cultural environment as well as its picturesque architecture, and the Strait and the upper part of the long High Street have a wide range of different architectural styles in their buildings, of considerable interest. Steep, Strait and High forms the final volume in a series of architectural and historical surveys of the historic buildings of Lincoln, based on forty-five years of research, originally undertaken by the Survey of Ancient Houses, sponsored by the Lincoln Civic Trust, and now continued in the work of the Survey of Lincoln. Christopher Johnson, Chair of theSurvey of Lincoln, was an archivist and latterly service manager at Lincolnshire Archives prior to becoming Information and Records Manager at Lincolnshire County Council; Stanley Jones was a lecturer at Sheffield College of Art,and has been deeply involved in the Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln.Trade ReviewSteep, Strait and High is the culmination of a remarkable 45-year programme of architectural and historical research. * KATE GILES *Table of ContentsSelect Bibliography Introduction The Survey Appendix: The Survey of Ancient Houses 1970-1996

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Book SynopsisA fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren’s architecture In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren’s (1632–1723) interest in Eastern antiquity and Ottoman architecture, an interest that would animate much of his theory and practice. As the early modern understanding of antiquity broadened to include new discoveries at Palmyra and Persepolis, Wren disputed common assumptions about the European origins of Classical and Gothic architecture, tracing these building traditions not to the Greeks or Germans but to the stonemasons of the biblical East. In a deft analysis, Hart contextualizes Wren’s use of classical elements—columns, domes, and cross plans—within his enthusiasm for the East and the broader Anglican interest in the Eastern church. A careful study of diary records reappraises Wren’s working relationship with Robert Hooke (1635–1703), who shared in many of Wren’s theoretical commitments. The result is a new, deepened understanding of Wren’s work.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Absorbing”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement“[O]ffers new insight into this facet of the architect by tracing a substantial component of Wren’s architectural activity that involved his study and adoption of Eastern sources. Wren’s interest in antiquarianism and architectural models from the Orient is well known, but Hart’s is the first comprehensive study dedicated to unfolding this complex constellation of architectural references.”— Gregorio Astengo, Architectural Histories“From impressive research and clear argument, Vaughan Hart has produced a beautifully illustrated, fresh understanding of Wren’s churches and their relationship to the East.”—Benedict Vickery, Skyline [Magazine] “Lavishly illustrated and beautifully formatted, the pages behind this evocative front cover take the reader on a richly detailed tour of Wren’s study and use of ancient and early Christian Eastern buildings and of the international information networks supporting Wren’s study.”—Kimberley Skelton, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society

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Book SynopsisThe Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, the Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, covering Aldgate to Mile End Green, and Brick Lane to Wellclose Square. The name Whitechapel—one of London’s best known—is highly evocative, carrying dark, even mythic associations. These are set aside to present new histories of all the area’s sites and buildings, those standing and many that have gone, in districts that have been repeatedly rebuilt. Abutting the City of London, Whitechapel has, since medieval times, housed commerce and many varied industries. Enriched by centuries of immigration, this area has been “global” for as long as that word has denoted the world and, amidst widespread poverty, some of London’s great institutions have been founded here. In the midst of these landmarks, Whitechapel has seen recent transformation. These volumes bear historical witness with hundreds of superb new photographs and meticulous architectural drawings illustrating detailed accounts of topographical development in accessible prose. They will be an invaluable resource for historians, planners, residents, and the wider public.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review"A new Survey of London publication always marks a red-letter occasion for the capital’s enthusiasts. In these two astonishing volumes on Whitechapel, the Survey has managed even to excel itself"—Jerry White, The London Journal“Every street is minutely assessed in terms of its architectural and urban form, and social and political history...The Survey has evolved gloriously unto collections of detailed studies of each area of London. It makes an outstanding scholarly contribution to our record and understanding of our capital city."—Jeremy Musson, The Oldie

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Book SynopsisExplores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism Spanning the designed landscapes of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens—many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form? As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created—stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate—the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe—intersected with that of the farm and the plantation. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“This is a complex but profoundly rewarding book. . . . The revolutionary reconfiguration of space and landscape can be a vital, indeed necessary, engine of progress.”—World of Interiors

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Book SynopsisWhat constitutes the social context of architecture? What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies resonate with architectural and space-making practices? The 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial explores the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land, memory, rights, and civic participation—drawing buildings, planning, art, policy making, education, and activism into new conversations at global and civic scales.Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, …and other such stories extends the exhibition’s core questions through a range of essays, interviews, and visual dossiers, along with a section introducing the Biennial’s contributors. It is structured by a series of curatorial frames: (1) No Land Beyond reflects on landscapes of belonging and sovereignty that challenge narrow definitions of land as property and commodity; (2) Appearances and Erasures explores both shared and contested memories in consideration of monuments, memorials, and social histories; (3) Rights and Reclamations foregrounds aspects of rights, advocacy, and civic purpose in architectural and spatial practices; and (4) Common Ground addresses practices invested in producing and intervening in public space within and beyond the field of architecture.

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Book SynopsisModernists of the early twentieth century were transfixed by the X-ray—a means of seeing through skin into systems of bones and tissue. What, nearly a century later, can X-rays reveal about the systems of modernism itself? Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. Through unorthodox survey practices, the project uses the imaging techniques of conservation and the documentary detritus of heritage preservation to show how scientific methods attempt to produce stable notions of history and value. Deploying the medium of the X-ray, Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam tell two related histories of building conservation, internationalism, and the making of modernist meaning through the architect Le Corbusier’s building Stuttgart’s Weissenhofsiedlung and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

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Book SynopsisThe creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary architecture. This book, the first critical monograph on the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, does more than just describe projects and buildings: It places Koolhaas’s career in a cultural context that allows the reader to better understand the creative process of modern architecture. The works considered are presented in chronological and thematic order, thus retracing the career of Koolhaas from his student days to his neo-avant-garde experimentation at the end of the 1970s and finishing with his most recent works in Porto, Seoul, and Beijing. The individual projects are analyzed from conception to construction, paying particular attention to the conceptual and technical reasons for choices of materials and configuration. Overall, the book addresses the theoretical formulations of Koolhaas, offering a reflection on the fundamental principles of the contemporary architectural project.Table of ContentsExperiences with the Paranoid-Critical Method / New Sobriety vs. Post-Modern and Contextualism / The epoch of the merveilles / S, M, L, XL, 1995: principles for a theory of architecture / Generic volume, informal polyhedral solids and functional diagrams

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. Concrete in Switzerland is a historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time: concrete. The book addresses a number of issues of global relevance from a particular vantage point: reinforced concrete construction in Switzerland. Through contributions by internationally renowned researchers, Concrete in Switzerland analyzes a series of moments in the Swiss history of reinforced concrete, from the initial phase of its introduction in the country to the most refined applications in architecture and engineering. Groundbreaking and thorough, Concrete in Switzerland explores the history and application of a contentious material.Table of ContentsSwitzerland, A Technological Pastoral / Laurent StalderBeton is a State of Mind: On the Representation of Concrete in Swiss Cinema / Marcel BächtigerNature, Science, and Enterprise: The Origins of the Success of Reinforced Concrete in Switzerland. The Introduction, Diffusion, and Supersedence of the Hennebique System / Salvatore ApreaBetween Constraint and Freedom to Innovate: Swiss Standards to Innovate / Aurelio MuttoniThe N2 Chiasso–Saint Gotthard Motorway: Design and Construction of One Hundred and Forty-Three Kilometres of Reinforced Concrete / Ilaria GiannettiReinforced Country Below Ground / Silvia Berger ZiauddinTerraced Hillside Housing Architectures. When Vineyards Gave Way to Swiss Families / Lorenzo StiegerThe Swiss Principle of Béton Brut: ‘Betonkonstruktion’. A Debate between Theory and Practice, 1940s–1960s / Silvia GroazGesamtschweizerische Plattenbau – Large-Panel Construction in Switzerland. The IGECO Heavy Prefabrication System in Göhner Housing Estates: Serial Production and Variations (1965–1977) / Giulia MarinoThe Pluralities of the Possible / Martin Tschanz‘In our country, it is practically impossible not to build in concrete’. Brief Notes on Exposed Reinforced Concrete in the Architecture of Ticino / Nicola NavoneConcrete in the Early Works of Herzog and de Meuron / Roberto GargianiSouthern Fragments of Swiss Asbestos-Cement, 1940 to 2040 / Hannah le RouxCONCRETE STORIES / Sarah NicholsIntroductionConcrete is RockConcrete is UndergroundConcrete is EnergyConcrete is Second NatureConcrete is MonolithicConcrete is CompositeConcrete is ImmaterialConcrete is PraxisConcrete is Fluid

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Book SynopsisA thorough and interdisciplinary look at the many aspects of wood construction over the past three hundred years. The IBOIS Notebooks offer a societal, ecological, cultural, and political look at wood construction. Through the work and critical analyses of authors from various disciplines, these notebooks reveal the structuring, sometimes contradictory, and often underestimated role of timber construction in the architectural evolution of the last three centuries. This biannual editorial project, led by Christophe Catsaros, philosopher, journalist, and architecture critic, and Yves Weinand, architect-engineer and director of the Wood Construction Laboratory (IBOIS) at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), draws the outlines of an original and transdisciplinary account. Going beyond the established distinction between the humanities and applied sciences, the notebooks offer alternative relationships for innovative wood construction. Behind this original and cross-disciplinary panorama—where researchers, builders, and historians question the potential of a material—is the ambition of a radical change, as evidenced both by the research and the achievements of the EPFL’s Wood Construction Laboratory.Table of ContentsTHE IBOIS NOTEBOOKS, TOOLS OF INCREASED TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, Christophe CatsarosPLEATS PLEASE? – THE SECRET ARCHITECTURE OF THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, Françoise FromonotARCHITECTURE IN THE ERA OF THE DIGITAL CONTINUUM, Stéphane BerthierTHE THEATRE THAT CAME OUT OF THE WOOD, Yann RocherIMAGESTHE AUTHORSIMPRESSUM

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Book SynopsisIn 1919, after five years of brutal conflict, World War I ended. And while the living soldiers returned home, the dead stayed where they had fallen, in war graves throughout Europe. This book takes readers to many of the graveyards that serve as the final resting places of British soldiers who died during World War I. British cemeteries, we discover, are gardens, and many of them were designed by the greatest British architects of the time, such as Edwin Lutyens or Charles Holden, and their architectural quality is exceptional. Gardens of War invites us to discover these unique places by approaching them in two ways. First, we see them as a project, building our understanding from archival documents and the testimonies of the actors involved in this vast undertaking, including politicians, diplomats, and, above all, architects. But we are also invited to discover them as visitors who travel along the roads that connect them, restoring our impressions through sketches, photos, and drawings, as closely as possible to the sensitive and emotional experience of actually being there. Table of ContentsForeword“WAR IT IS” – The Imperial War Graves Commission – Unlikely PlacesTHE VISITOR / 1THE VISITOR’S NOTEBOOK / 1CONQUERING THE TERRITORYTHE VISITOR’S NOTEBOOK / 2PRESERVING THE TERRITORY – GHQ, DGRE, BEF – Repetition, Distinction, Invention – Models and Types / 1 / Models – Models and Types / 2 / Types – MemorialsTHE VISITOR’S NOTEBOOK / 3ACQUIRING THE LANDSCAPE – A Given Landscape – The Landscape RevealedTHE VISITOR’S NOTEBOOK / 4THE VISITOR / 2VISITOR’S MAPBibliographyCredits

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Book SynopsisThe most significant research conducted on concrete architecture in the United States from 1940 to 1970. The affirmation of reinforced concrete and the kinds of space generated by its structures is one of the most fascinating and revolutionary chapters in the history of twentieth-century architecture and engineering. This richly illustrated, three-volume essay offers the first complete overview of all the most significant research conducted in concrete in the United States from 1940 to 1970. It includes the greatest architects of the time, from Frank Lloyd Wright to I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, Emery Roth & Sons, and others. The analysis of the works presented on the pages of the three books reconstructs the most important inventions in the use of concrete, whether reinforced or not, prefabricated or cast in place, used in the form of skeleton, walls, columns, blocks, or panels. The book also includes a chapter on a new kind of ornament, permitted by special plastic products applied to formwork, and other chapters dedicated to the different processing techniques used to obtain various surface textures. It enters the complex theoretical universe of truths and lies, upon which the greatest architects have debated through the manipulation of concrete. Finally, it guides readers up to the decline of the creative force of structures. A New Era of American Architectural Concrete not only offers the first exhaustive history of an architectural technique that was decisive in the United States, but also a new vision of twentieth-century American architecture.Table of ContentsprologueSurface Finishes by the Book: The Accomplishments of Architectural Concretechapter one. The Self-Built Construction of Wright and Residential Fabrication SystemsWright’s Desert Concrete: Toward a Constructional PrimitivismTextile and Concrete Blocks for the Usonian Houses The Experimental Residential Constructionof Rudolph and GoldbergThe Monolithic Houses of Le Tourneau and IBEC The Lift Slab Method by Youtz & Slick and by the Vagtborg Corporationchapter two. The Primitive Frame of MiesBeauty is the Splendor of Truth: Mies’s Chicago Debut Belluschi’s Equitable Building: The CopyThe Promontory Apartments: The Degree Zeroof the New Chicago FramePrototype VariationsAffordable Housing in Chicago, or the Miesian Aestheticchapter three. Prestressing and New Structuresfor ConcretePrestressed Girders and the Walnut Lane Bridge Wright’s Butterfly Bridge and Soleri’s Tubular Bridge The Helio-Laboratory Tower in RacinePei and Severud’s Structure for the Helix Apartment Towerchapter four. Kahn’s Space FrameThe Tetrahedron Floor System and Béton Brutof the Yale Art GalleryGrowth, Stratification, and Groove: The Impossible MonolithA Space Frame for the City Hall Buildingchapter five. Effects of Scale and Prestressing: Works by SOM and MiesGoldsmith: Superstructure and Bracing Learning from NerviSOM’s Quest for an Expressive StructureThe Bridges and Prestressed Girders of SOM and Khan New Paths of Gravity: Goldsmith and LinMies’s Reinforced Trilithchapter six. The Skyscrapers of Mies, Kahn, and WrightThe Unclear Structure of Mies and Severud for the Seagram BuildingJohnson and the Enigma of Diagonal Bracing Kahn’s Tower of Triangular Concrete Frames The Richards Laboratories: Prefabrication and Post-TensioningWright’s Tripod Frame Construction and Molded OrnamentThe Illinois Mile-High Cantilever Sky-Citychapter seven. Architectural Concrete Variations, from Breuer to SaarinenMo-Sai Precast Concrete Cladding PanelsThe Bush-Hammered Concrete of Breuerand the Sandblasting of Anshen & AllenThe Ineffable Material Substance of Saarinen’s ConcreteSOM’s Experiments for a Concrete Skyscraper Rudolph, Pei, Harrison & Abramovitz,and Prefabricated PanelsSaarinen’s rubble aggregate concreteApplied ornament versus texture: plastic and transfers

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Book SynopsisA contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in place and bearing imprints of their formwork in the manner of Ando Tadao, the lighter structures of Ito Toyo and Sejima Kazuyo, or the finely wrought facades of Kuma Kengo. A generational chasm and, rather surprisingly, even a historical one seems to have opened up between the emblematic images of traditional Japanese architecture, in which wood is the material of choice, and more current and innovative work, in which its use has been reduced. Even though the carpenter has long been the lead builder, contemporary architectural culture appears to have forgotten this reservoir of construction experience accumulated over centuries. The Carpenter and the Architect expertly corrects this outdated notion.Table of ContentsA STORY OF PRINCIPLES – COMPLEXITY IN ARCHITECTURE… À LA JAPANESE – THE DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURAL TYPES – EVOLUTIONS OF THE PLAN – CONSTRUCTIONAL COMBINATORICS – TOWARDS ASYMMETRY – INNOVATIONS WITHIN INTERIOR SPACE: FROM THE POST TO THE TATAMI – IRREGULAR SPACES: THE ASSOCIATION OF HIROMA AND KOMA ROOMS – NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE – A FEW MORE RINGS IN CLOSINGA MODERN STORY – THE IMPORTATION OF WESTERN STYLES DURING THE MEIJI ERA – THE CREATION OF AN ORIENTAL JAPANESE STYLE – THE BEGININGS OF MODERN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE: THE INFLUENCE OF EXPRESSIONISM – MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN WOOD: THE CORBUSIAN SCHOOL – POSTWAR: THE TANGE SAGA – TOWARDS AN ABSTRACT JAPANESE SPACE: THE SHINOHARA SCHOOL – THE COORDINATES OF IRRATIONALITY IN JAPANESE SPACE – TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE… IN WOOD – VARIATIONS ON THE STYLE – CONTEMPORARY SUKIYA ARCHITECTURE: AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE?A PARTICULAR STORY – AN EXAMPLE FROM TODAY – HISTORY AND CULTURE – IDENTIFICATION OF A CENTER – PRINCIPLES OF AN ONTOLOGY OF CONSTRUCTION – PAST-PRESENT369 POSTSCRIPT: TRADITION, WHO ARE YOU?JAPANESE TERMSINDEX OF PROPER NAMESPLACE NAMESBIBLIOGRAPHYILLUSTRATIONSCHRONOLOGYACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Book SynopsisThrough sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete’s formal expression, beyond the lesson of Le Corbusier. Kahn’s obsession on concrete fabrication processes, on the formwork and the mix-design, is systematically examined in two volumes. The authors illustrate Kahn’s vision with documents that have never been revealed in other essays, drawing heavily from original sketches, plans, specifications, worksite photographs, and correspondences with collaborators, engineers, technicians and contractors. The first volume Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones focuses on the first ten-year period of Kahn research on concrete. Moving through the many construction systems experienced by Kahn, from the discovery of exposed concrete in the form of béton brut at the Yale Art Gallery, to the precast and poured-in-place techniques, to the values of joint, growth and ornament, the essay culminates in the reconstruction of the artistic and technical characteristics of two great worksite, the Richards Laboratories and the First Unitarian Church and School. The second volume, Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, covers the following fourteen years and leads the reader along Kahn’s path to the true 'nature of concrete', focusing on his main techniques and poetic discoveries such as the 'liquid stone' of the Salk Institute, the 'smooth finish' at Bryn Mawr and the concept of 'monolithic' at the Yale Center for British Art.Table of Contents1. The Nature of Concrete: the 'Liquid Stone' of the Salk Institute 2. Confirmations of the 'Smooth Finish': the Worksite at Bryn Mawr 3. Design and Construction in Concrete at Dhaka 4. Walls and Vaults of the Kimbell Art Museum 5. Concrete and Brick 6. Different Forms of Exposed Concrete 7. Delirious Formwork: Slip-Form Method for Skyscrapers 8. Towards the Monolith: the Yale Center for British Art Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes for the first time ever, the rise of the modern art of building with concrete in the different German territories stretching from Friesland to Pomerania and southwards from Bavaria to Baden during the first three quarters of the 19th century. Based on careful analyses of historic documents and literature, the book traces an engaging history of master builders, engineers, architects, theoreticians, chemists and inventors tracking the evolution of different building techniques, materials, studies and experiments concerning concrete. It analyses German master builders’ consideration for classical building culture and for contemporaneous constructions observed in neighbouring countries. This narration starts at the turn of the 19th century with early scientific studies on cement, examples of rudimentary concrete used as filling material in small hydraulic foundations and attempts at producing mortar-based artificial stones and moulded objects. The account then follows the progression of cement and the abilities of master builders who worked with concrete until crucial evolutionary stages were reached in the 1870s. Early scientific theories about the chemical reactions in the production and hardening of cement were developed; concrete was finally used to build huge underwater foundations as well as entire houses; the production of mortar-based artificial stones and moulded objects became a significant manufacturing branch; the first standards for the production and sale of Portland cement were defined and officially implemented.Table of ContentsLime, trass, mortar, concrete and artificial stones at the turn of the 19th century: Premises for the development of concrete. The state-of-the-art knowledge about lime, between alchemical heritage and scientific achievements. Cement, the practices of producing hydraulic mortar and the importance of trass. Rudimental traces of concrete in foundations, between local experiments and references to antiquity. Hollow masonry-faced walls filled with concrete. French concrete foundations in Rhineland. The ambition to produce mortar-based artificial stone. New knowledge about hydraulic lime, cement and mortar: The Theorie des besten Mörtels by John. A new awareness about hydraulic lime and mortar. Cement from England and policies for the Gewerbeförderung. Artificial stones by Sachs and moulded statues by De la Rivallière-Preignac von Frauendorf. Roman cement applications and hydraulic lime manufacturing. Concrete hydraulic foundations: trass versus – hydraulic lime. The realization of John’s theory in Fuch’s studies – on lime and mortar. Concrete foundations in technical literature. Hydraulic lime and cement manufacturing: The Bavarian hydraulic lime, a mineralischer Schatz. Cement manufacturing in Northwest and central Germany, from Hamburg to Kassel. Further production of hydraulic lime and the persistent fascination with English Roman cement in Prussia. Mortar, plaster and concrete, experimental uses of Kassel and Hamelin cement, and the attempts to build continuous masonry elements. Concrete foundations, walls, artificial stones: Concrete foundations in regions along the Rhine, the persisting use of trass. Concrete foundations in Bavaria and Pomerania, the exploitation of local hydraulic lime. Lean conglomerates for rural buildings and the development of Kalksand. Concrete and cement in Hamburg, between Dutch, French and English influences. Moulded cement-based artificial stones and mortar tiles. Concrete fillings for bridge decks, and to restore masonry cracks. The concrete foundations of the piers for the railway bridges in Dirschau and Marienburg, the development of local artificial cement by Lentze. Further studies about materials used to produce hydraulic mortar and concrete. Portland cement and concrete construction, from foundations to roofs: Portland cement and its prevalent use in binding brickwork. The manufacturing of Portland cement by Bleibtreu. The acknowledgment of the monolithic behaviour – of concrete and the further spread of concrete foundations. Lean conglomerate as a German kind of concrete – for above-ground constructions. The manufacturing of Cementwaaren. Improvements to scaffoldings and sheet pilings – for foundations underwater, the building of the bridge over the Rhine in Koblenz. Sinking wells, sinking caissons and pneumatic caissons. Concrete for above-ground constructions. Further studies about Portland cement and the regulation of its main physical features.

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation - Makkah, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histories that are stitched together by an abundance of organically rooted communities and cultures. It is a place that accommodated not only sacred structures and sites but also huge fluctuations in population during Ramadan (up to 3 million visitors a year travel to Makkah for Eid and Hajj). More recently, these sites and communities have been eradicated and are being replaced with five-star-studded high rise developments, transforming it from an active metropolis to the world's most exclusive, yet most visited religious tourist destination, reflective of an unprecedented experimentation with architecture and its possible impact on social stratification. This photographic essay is a celebration of Makkah's real and projected or imaginary states. It provides singular access to this site and its associated social and religious rituals, along with its architectural urban planned and proposed development.

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Book SynopsisThe Greek island sequence montaged by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative photoplastiks, as a "message in a bottle" thrown into the sea that "might take decades for someone to find and read." Capturing the incomparable Greek light, it presents a compelling glimpse of the four days and nights in August 1933 when the elite of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde-in Greece for the 4th International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)-took to the Aegean in a barely-seaworthy "nut shell" that would bring them close to the brink of disaster. The "motley crew" included Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Amedee Ozenfant, Sigfried Giedion, Cor van Eesteren, and Otto Neurath. Crucial to the success of the surreal odyssey were members of the Greek avant-garde. Drawing on previously unpublished material-Moholy's poetically ironic letter to his wife Sibyl, Ghika's candid Memoirs of Le Corbusier, and forensic examination of the architect's sketchbooks-the authors reconstruct the epiphanies, debates, and, inevitably, estrangements at this critical moment in European history.

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Book SynopsisIn what he called his “illustrated guide to modern architecture,” which starts off the Bauhausbücher series, Gropius gives an overview of the international architecture of the mid-1920s. A preface by the author explores, briefly but in detail, the guiding principles that unite the avant-garde in all countries. This statement is followed by an extensive illustrated section showing examples of architecture from around the world. According to Gropius, these illustrations bear witness to the “development of a consistent worldview” that disposes of the prior role of the architect and expresses itself in a new language of shapes.

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Book SynopsisThe author is an intimate connoisseur of Palladioâs architecture and lives in one of his villas himselfA fresh view of Palladioâs private buildings from the perspective of Renaissance âœfamiliesâ

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Book SynopsisFollowing the pair of monographic “Sauerbruch Hutton Archives” (Archive, 2006; Archive 2, 2016) Lars Müller Publishers presents a reader edited by the architects. Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and dissemination of architecture in Europe over the course of the last three decades, and of the architecture that has resulted. The essays generally include observations on one or more of Sauerbruch Hutton’s buildings, but these do not necessarily form the focus of the respective texts. The authors include critics who have written on the work of the practice in the past, architectural colleagues and writers whose opinions and observations are respected by the editors as well as a handful of people who either live or work in one of their buildings and so have experienced Sauerbruch Hutton’s architecture firsthand. Further, a photographic essay by the Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen will augment the twenty-fi ve essays with works created between 1990 and 2020. Analogous to the written pieces, these are images in their own right and of their own subjects that have been triggered by the presence of one of Sauerbruch Hutton’s buildings.

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Book SynopsisThe Delos Symposia, which ran from 1963 to 1975, were a groundbreaking series of events dedicated to rethinking and reshaping the built environment to solve the planet's environmental and demographic problems. Choreographed around the charismatic Greek architect-planner Constantinos Doxiadis, and generating an entirely new science of human settlements called Ekistics, this ambitious endeavour was run according to ancient Greek practices of the sympósion, with banquets, dancing and fancy dress parties taking place aboard cruise ships in the Aegean Sea. Each symposium concluded at the island-city of Delos, where influential figures as diverse as Margaret Mead, Arnold Toynbee, Siegfried Giedion, Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Ward, Jean Gottmann, Kenzo Tange ,Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Marshall McLuhan would formally proceed to the ancient amphitheater and participate in ceremonial declarations on world issues.The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis offers the first comprehensive appraisal of the histor

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsÄgyptische Kultur.- Geschichtlicher und kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick.- Allgemeine Anmerkungen zur Architektur.- Technische Voraussetzungen.- Ästhetik und Architektur.- Symbolik und Architektur.- Aufgaben und soziale Stellung des Architekten.- Grab- und Sakralbau.- Altes Reich.- Mittleres Reich.- Neues Reich.- Spätzeit.- Profanbau.- Städtebau.- Wohnbau.- Festungsbau.- Mesopotamische/Kleinasiatische Kulturen.- Geschichtlicher und kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick.- Mesopotamische Kulturen.- Kleinasiatische Kulturen.- Allgemeine Anmerkungen zur Architektur.- Sakralbau.- Profanbau.- Städtebau.- Wohnbau.- Ägäische Kulturen.- Geschichtlicher und kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick.- Minoische Kultur.- Griechische Heldenzeit (Mykene).- Allgemeine Anmerkungen zur Architektur.- Grabbau.- Profanbau.- Städtebau.- Wohnbau.- Festungsbau.- Griechische Kulturen.- Geschichtlicher und kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick.- Allgemeine Anmerkungen zur Architektur.- Steintransport und -bearbeitung.- Säulenordnungen.- Bautypenentwicklung.- Grab- und Sakralbau.- Grabbau.- Tempelbau.- Profanbau.- Städtebau.- Wohnbau.- Öffentliche Bauten.- Festungsbau.- Etruskische/Römische Kultur.- Geschichtlicher und kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick.- Allgemeine Anmerkungen zur Architektur.- Beitrag zur abendländischen Architektur.- Bauteile und Baugefüge.- Grab-, Denkmal- und Sakralbau.- Grabbau.- Denkmalbau.- Tempelbau.- Profanbau.- Städtebau.- Wohnbau.- Öffentliche Bauten.- Festungsbau.- Ingenieurbau.- Bildteil.

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Book SynopsisDie Architektur- und Planungstheorie ist das Reflexionsmedium, in dem Geplantes und Gebautes untersucht und kritisch nachvollzogen wird. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen soll Orientierungswissen für künftiges Planen und Bauen gewonnen werden, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund sich verändernder gesellschaftlicher Anforderungen. Ziel ist dabei, einen theoretisch fundierten Beitrag für die Berufspraxis zu leisten. Als thematischer Leitfaden wird in diesem Buch das städtische Wohnen in Europa gewählt. Dabei werden Theorien, Positionen und exemplarische Projekte, die die Entwicklung der Städte seit dem Industriezeitalter geprägt haben, in ihren jeweiligen geschichtlichen Zusammenhängen analysiert. Aktuelle Debatten und innovative Lösungsansätze werden auf ihre Zukunftsfähigkeit hin kritisch reflektiert.Table of ContentsDie bürgerliche Wohnform als sozial-räumliches Modell - Die Theorie der funktionalen Stadt - Die Suche nach zukunftsfähigen Wohnformen - Transparenz in der Architektur - Städtische öffentliche Räume: Konzeption und soziale Nutzung - Handlungsperspektiven

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Book SynopsisMost, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expectations ran high; in the end, however, Most became a symbol for the heartless incompetence of Czechoslovak communism. In this book, Matěj Spurný explores the historical city of Most from the nineteenth century into the years following World War II, investigating the decision to destroy it as well as the negotiations concerning the spirit of the proposed new city. Situating postwar Most in the context of cultural and social shifts in Czechoslovakia and Europe as a whole, Spurný traces the path a medieval city took to become a showcase of brutalist architecture and the regime’s technicist inhumanity. But the book, like the city of Most itself, does not end in tragedy. Fusing architectural and political history with urban and environmental studies, Spurný’s tale shows the progress that can be made when Czechs confront the crimes of the past—including the expulsion of local Germans and the treatment of the Romani minority—and engage with rational, contemporary European concepts of urban renewal.

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Book SynopsisVolume 15,3: Architecture, Topography, Finds. Expanding on the publication of the shipsheds and slipways found in the northern half of Group 1 (Area 1) on the eastern side of Zea Harbour in Volume I.1–2 (2011) of the peer-reviewed Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus series, Volume II presents further results of the archaeological investigations conducted by the Zea Harbour Project (ZHP) in 2004-2010 and 2012 of ancient shipsheds and slipways in Zea Harbour (Pashalimani), both identified and possible, making them the best documented structures in Athens’ naval bases and in the wider Mediterranean. Approximately half of Volume II is devoted to the remains of shipsheds and possible shipsheds in the southern half of Group 1 (Area 2), while studies of structures identified as wide unroofed slipways in Group 2 (Area 3) on the south-eastern side of the same harbour basin occupy the balance of the book. After Chapter 1’s introduction to terminology and methodology, Chapter 2 presents the architecture of the shipsheds and possible shipsheds found in the southern half of Group 1 (Area 2), along with the arrangement and topography of this massive naval complex, which in the 4th century BC covered between 11,630 m2 and 11,989 m2. Chapter 3 examines and catalogues the ceramics and other small finds discovered in the same area, discussing their excavation contexts, composition, and chronological significance. Chapter 4 focuses on the architecture and topography of seven wide, unroofed slipways found in Group 2 in the northern part of Area 3 that represent a building type previously unknown in the Piraeus, probably designed either for a larger warship known as the penteres (‘five’), introduced into the Athenian navy between 329/8 BC and 326/5 BC, or for a larger Hellenistic-period warship type. Chapter 5 analyses and catalogues the ceramic small finds recovered during the excavation of the structures featured in Chapter 4. Chapter 6 presents the new evidence regarding relative sea-level change in the harbours of Zea and Mounichia and its impact on the reconstructed lengths and layouts of the slipways and shipsheds at Zea in Group 1 (Areas 1–2) along with the wide slipways of Group 2, including greater accuracy in the recalculated lengths of the Group 1 shipsheds and slipways presented in Volume I; furthermore, it reaffirms the validity of the ZHP’s methodology and published results in relation to shipsheds around the Mediterranean. Chapter 7 recapitulates the authors’ topographical, architectural, and chronological conclusions regarding the complexes at Zea and Mounichia, which contain the only identifiable shipsheds for triremes anywhere in the ancient world. Descriptive catalogues of the Area 2 and 3 quarries and Area 2 trenches (Appendices 1–2), Figures, and Plates complete the volume.

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