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Architect's Pocket Book
Charlotte Baden-Powell, Jonathan Hetreed, Ann Ross
(2008 - Third Edition -)
Paperback - 356 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750686170
Synopsis by publisher:
This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. The book is full of tips and tricks of the trade, from complying with the Building Regs, to helping with planning, measurement and detailing. This third edition is fully updated and includes new information and guidance on critical sustainable design issues. Compact and easy to use, the "Architects Pocket Book" has sold over 40,000 copies. Although conceived as a reference for architects and designers, it is now just as popular with building and design professionals who do not have an architecture background but need to understand the basics, fast.This is a book you simply can't afford to be without. Charlotte Baden-Powell was trained at the Architectural Association in London. She practiced architecture for over 40 years, during which time she identified the need for this book, which was first published in 1997. Jonathan Hetreed and Ann Ross have drawn from years of experience of running a small practice in Bath to update and extend the scope of the new edition. Essential info for everyday use is always to hand with this indispensable reference. The fully updated, practical text is complimented by clear diagrams and tables. It offers a wide ranging coverage, from planning permission and sustainability to steelwork and woodworm.
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A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash
Harry Mount
(2008)
Hardcover - 384 pages
Little, Brown
ISBN: 1408700905
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Ever wondered why the floors in our terraced houses are different heights? Or what the landscape round where you live looked like before it was built on? And did you know you can date a building by its window sills? A LUST FOR WINDOW SILLS tells us why and how. Harry Mount takes us on an engrossing tour of the nation's architecture, exploring the quirks, foibles and tiny details that make our buildings unique, and revealing the fascinating stories and anecdotes behind them along the way. We see every historic building style in Britain in one hour's walk across London, from the Norman apse of St Bartholomew's in Smithfield to the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing, via Gothic in Holborn, Sir Christopher Wren in the City and the Knights Templar at Temple. A trip up the M4 reveals some of our greatest country houses, while a visit to Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill is a journey back to the Bronze Age. This book is a lively, entertaining and affectionate portrait of our history and the Britain we live in today.
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Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Daniel E. Williams
(2007)
Hardcover - 304 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471709530
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, "Sustainable Design" answers key questions such as: How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? What is the difference between 'green design' and 'sustainable design'? What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work. Williams' book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.
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The Energy Efficient Home
Patrick Waterfield
(2006)
Hardcover - 176 pages
The Crowood Press Ltd
ISBN: 1861267797
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The age of cheap energy is over and energy costs will increase relentlessly in the future as demand outstrips supply. Energy-saving measures in the home will, therefore, become ever more cost-effective throughout lifetimes. This non-technical book is packed full of useful information and tips. The book covers every aspect of the efficient consumption of energy in the home including the following: the position of the dwelling, its method of construction and the materials used; energy rating and the legal framework; insulation and U-values; windows and doors; conservatories, sunrooms and loft conversions; heating and hot-water systems; lighting and making the best use of daylight; ventilation; renewable energy technologies; appliances, gadgets and housekeeping; and the wider environmental issues including water economy and recycling.
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How We Built Britain
David Dimbleby
(2007)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747588716
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book, David Dimbleby tells the dramatic and heroic story of Britain's architecture - the extraordinary buildings that define a nation and which grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British people. How did we get from the fortified tower to the grand open mansion and back again to the gated communities of today? How did we lose the marketplace to the out-of-town shopping mall? When did it become so important how libraries and prisons look? What does the way we arrange our city centres say about us? Can architecture really make a difference to our quality of life? This fascinating and authoritative account of a thousand years of change in Britain's buildings tackles these questions and many more.
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The Buildings of Ireland - Dublin
Christine Casey
(2005)
Hardcover - 800 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300109237
Synopsis by publisher:
A uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin. Churches, public buildings and streets are described for every district, each full of new discoveries and lively detail. The entire area within the canals is covered, along with the Phoenix Park. The grand eighteenth-century set-pieces - Custom House, Four Courts, Bank of Ireland - are offset by a graceful Georgian cityscape, much of which remains intact. The rewardingly complex buildings of Trinity College and Dublin Castle are explored in full, and the astonishingly rich and varied house interiors are also described, many for the first time. Civic and commercial Victorian architecture features in strength, together with the highs and lows of post-war building, which culminate in some sensitive and resourceful buildings by a new generation of Irish architects. Two fine Gothic cathedrals remain from the medieval city, whose history is traced in a scholarly introduction that runs down to the present day. Sculpture, monuments and public art - the greatest such concentration in all Ireland - also feature in strength.
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Leonardo Da Vinci, the Complete Works
Leonardo da Vinci
(2006)
Hardcover - 640 pages
David & Charles
ISBN: 0715324535
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This captivating book provides the reader with a unique insight into the life and work of one of history's most intriguing figures. All of Leonardo Da Vinci's work is presented in this compact volume - from his paintings and frescos, to detailed reproductions of his remarkable encrypted notebooks. As well as featuring each individual artwork, sections of each are shown in isolation to reveal incredible details - for example, the different levels of perspective between the background sections of the "Mona Lisa", and the disembodied hand in "The Last Supper". 640 pages of colour artworks and photographs of Da Vinci's original notebooks, accompanied by fascinating biographical and historical details are here.
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
B. Hayes
(2005)
Hardcover - 500 pages
W W Norton & Co Ltd
ISBN: 0393059979
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they are there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing and waste, this is the perfect companion to the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment, such as streetlights, railway tracks, antenna towers, motorway overpasses, satellite dishes and thousands of other manufactured items, are so familiar they have become so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. This book is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world created by man.
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Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds
Susan Wrathmell
(2005)
Paperback - 320 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300107366
Synopsis by publisher:
The richly diverse architectural heritage of Leeds, from the mighty Town Hall to its daring 1960s university campus, is fully explored in this essential guide. A series of walks reveal each period of development, from medieval wool town to vibrant twenty-first century city, covering buildings as diverse as the Jacobean church of St John, the relics of nineteenth century industry and opulent Victorian shopping arcades. Excursions into the suburbs and beyond take the reader to Kirkstall Abbey, Temple Newsam and the Norman church at Adel. Colour photographs, maps and plans make this an invaluable companion.
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Historic Arts and Crafts Homes of Great Britain
Brian D. Coleman
(2005)
Hardcover - 192 pages
Gibbs M Smith Inc
ISBN: 158685531X
Synopsis by publisher:
From esteemed author Brian D. Coleman comes a thorough exploration into the origins of the design and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement in Great Britain - the roots of which are inspiring a fresh new approach to the more traditional American Arts and Crafts style. Coleman leads an inspiring and beautiful tour of ten of the most historic Arts and Crafts homes in Britain, from William Morris's Red House in Kent to Macintosh's Hill House in Glasgow.
Learn about the history, construction, and thoughtfulness of design that give valuable insight into the philosophy of the movement and how it is reinterpreted today. Honesty of construction, attention to detail, and the value of handcraftsmanship are principles of the Arts and Crafts movement first celebrated by William Morris and John Ruskin over one hundred years ago. Other homes featured in the book include Blackwell in the Lake District (architect M. H. Baillie Scott), Castle Drogo in Devon (architect Sir Edwin Lutyens), Cragside in Northumberland (architect Richard Norman Shaw), and Kelmscott Manor in London (William Morris's holiday home). All homes featured in the book are open to the public and maintained as museums and tributes to the artistry. Contact information is provided for each house, which provides a helpful tool for planning a visit.
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Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture
David Stephenson
(2005)
Hardcover - 192 pages
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568985495
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make "Visions of Heaven" one of the most spectacularly beautiful books that Princeton Architectural Press has ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second to the early twentieth century, Stephenson's work amounts to a veritable typology of the cupola. His images present complex geometrical structures, rich stucco decorations, and elaborate paintings as they have never been seen before. Brilliantly calibrated exposures reveal details and colours that would otherwise remain hidden in these dimly lit spaces. "Visions of Heaven" shows more than 120 images, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a nineteenth century synagogue in Hungary.
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Hollywood at Home
Paige Rense (Editor)
(2005)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810959291
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A variety of writers are featured, such as Gerald Clarke (Cary Grant and Randolph Scott), Nancy Collins (Cher and Diane Keaton), and Donald Spoto (Marilyn Monroe). The superb images were by a range of photographers as well, including Architectural Digest regulars Tim Street-Porter, Durston Saylor, and Mary E. Nichols. The following homes are featured in the book - Orson Welles, John Wayne, Jack Warner, John Travolta/Kelly Preston, Jimmy Stewart, Steven Spielberg, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Quaid, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Diane Keaton, Danny Kaye, Angelica Huston/John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Cary Grant/Randolph Scott, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable/Carole Lombard, Cecile B. de Mille, George Cukor, Cher, Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall and Ronald Reagan.
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Building Regulations in Brief
Ray Tricker
(2005)
Paperback - 744 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750667036
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This easy-to-understand pocket book gives those working in the UK or with UK organizations sufficient and practical information to enable them to comply with UK regulations in the simplest and most cost-effective manner possible. It takes away the mystique of the Building Regulations and provides an in-brief guide to meeting its requirements, providing simple and practical information on how the regulations can be easily and cost effectively adhered to. The author explains the meaning of the UK regulations, their history, current status, requirements, associated documentation and how local authorities and councils view its importance, also emphasising the benefits and requirements of these regulations. This new edition includes the latest revisions to Part P, Part A, Part C and Part E published in 2004 and 2005 as well as highlights from the consultation documents for Part L and Part F.
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Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-nature Connection
Stephen R. Kellert
(2005)
Paperback - 300 pages
Island Press
ISBN: 1559637218
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This is a definitive examination of how the inter-relationship between nature, architecture, and design is essential to human well-being. "Sustainable design" has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author, Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability. In "Building for Life", Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life. This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies - the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol - architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment.
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Urban Forms
Ivor Samuels, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule, Phillippe Panerai
(2004)
Paperback - 240 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750656077
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices. The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms that can accommodate present day ways of life and at the same time maintain the qualities of the traditional town. This English edition brings the story forward to the present day and considers the impact of the New Urbanism in the United States, which, over the last decade, has sought to re-establish former relationships within the urban tissue.
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The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation
Paul Spencer Byard
(2005)
Paperback - 192 pages
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
ISBN: 0393731766
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The Architecture of Additions examines the impact of new building on important existing architecture-from masterly succession at St Peter's Church in Rome to Penn Central's proposal for Grand Central Terminal to the Louvre Pyramid and the Studio National at Le Fresnoy, with emphasis on the contributions of modernism and the problems and possibilities of its late-twentieth-century successors. Paul Spencer Byard, an architect and lawyer, looks at more than sixty additions, built and unbuilt, for criteria to help protect the public interest in great buildings. The Architecture of Additions will help architects work successfully with significant buildings and, as importantly, will help interested private and public persons understand architecture.
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Concrete Architecture
Catherine Croft
(2005)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856693643
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
After a long period of being synonymous with urban deprivation and dreary stained surfaces, concrete is is now chic. A favourite material of fashionable style magazines, it is becoming ubiquitous in shops, restaurants and even homes. Concrete is in fact a fabulous material, which can be used in a huge range of techniques and situations. Its colour, texture, and constituents vary, it may be cheaply mass produced, or meticulously crafted, and new developments and increased understanding of its possibilities are inspiring contemporary architects and designers. Concrete Architecture begins by asking questions like: What is concrete? What is its history? How is concrete used? The book goes on to look at recent architectural projects that use concrete for an enormous range of building types. All the examples chosen celebrate the intrinsic qualities of concrete and how they work to make the places in which we live, work, and play. A range of projects from around the world includes for example a private house in the Netherlands by UN Studio and Canary Wharf Underground Station in London by Foster and Partners.
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Fantastic Form: Architecture and Planning Today
Bill Risebero
(2005)
Hardcover - 192 pages
New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 1561310573
Synopsis by publisher:
Bill Risebero, author of The Story of Western Architecture and Modern Architecture and Design, brings his story of modern architecture up to date with this examination of what has followed the eclipse of modernism. He looks critically at the theory and practice of the past decade - the decline of welfare capitalism, post-modern architecture, the development of free-market and right-wing political attitudes and their application to planning and social policy. Risebero places his subject in as wide a context as possible, geographical and historical, relating it to current trends in town planning, art, education, philosophy and literary theory. He also looks at the signs of hope for the future of our cities - people's growing concern for the environment and the earth's resources, their increasing demands for positive change - and at their architectural implications.
This is a topical, controversial book which not only describes today's architecture and goes a long way to explain why it is as it is but also suggests radical solutions to the current unsatisfactory state of affairs.
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Cities
John Reader
(2004)
Hardcover - 388 pages
William Heinemann
ISBN: 0434009628
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities explores the city's raisons d'etre, functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets, theatres and bars. The book is a study of the nature of the city and of city-life, from the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, and it explores how cities develop and thrive, how they can decline and die, how they remake themselves. John Reader investigates their parasitic relationship with the country around them, the webs of trade and immigration they inhabit, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes, focusing as much on Baron Haussman's creation of the Paris sewers as of his plans for the grands boulevards, on prostitution as on government, on human lives as on architecture, on markets as on cathedrals, in a sweeping exploration of what the city is and has been, fit to stand alongside Lewis Mumford's 1962 classic The City in History.
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The Anxious City
Richard J. Williams
(2004)
Paperback - 296 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415279275
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In the western world, cities have, arguably, never been more anxious: realistic anxieties about personal safety, and metaphorical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or inhabited? What should it look like? What should be its purpose? Which existing forms of urban life might serve as models for a new city? Taking England since WW2 as its principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the western city at a critical moment in its history. Historically among the most urbanised of countries, England is an extraordinary urban laboratory. The energy and thoroughness with which its cities have been transformed in the 1990s have lessons for urban development everywhere. The Anxious City examines the problem of the contemporary city through a series of detailed case studies: Poundbury, Milton Keynes, Liverpool's Albert Dock redevelopment, Trafalgar Square, Canary Wharf, the Great Court of the British Museum, and central Manchester after the 1996 IRA bomb. It deals with some broader cultural phenomena too: the continuing attraction of picturesque aesthetics, and the lure of southern European urbanism (exemplified by the RIBA's canonisation of Barcelona) and the complex, contradictory relationship between urbanism in England and the USA. The experience of these places, the book argues, shows a culture where the idea of the city remains contested: the frantic redevelopment of city centres in the 1990s represented one vision of the city - the city of spectacular consumption, competing in some imaginary urban race with other world cities. But such development took place against continuing suburbanisation and sprawl. In spite of all the building works, the city was still being worked out This book is a cultural history that will be essential reading for anyone interested in the recent history of urban life. It argues that the contemporary city is uniquely anxious, caught between nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty about the future. At a crucial moment in the history of the city, it cuts through the urbanistic propaganda spread by architects and politicians. This unique and challenging study will be of interest to students and practitioners alike.
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Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters
Ross Melnick, Andreas Fuchs
(2004)
Hardcover - 204 pages
Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760314926
Synopsis by publisher:
What twin theater opened in 1915?
How did Marcus Loew begin his career?
Where was stadium seating first popularized?
Who was "Roxy"?
Answers to these questions and many more can be found in a Cinema Treasures, by Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs. This new book will not only interest anyone working in or studying motion picture exhibition, but just about everyone who loves to go to the movies.
Melnick and Fuchs demonstrate how classic theaters in major cities and small towns across the United States are alive and well today, thanks to the dedication of their owners, community initiatives, and cultural and corporate sponsorships. Cinema Treasures showcases American movie theaters of all eras and architectural styles.
There are single-screen theaters, twins, triplexes, and, of course, multi- and megaplexes - all of which are of intrinsic cultural, social, architectural, and historical significance, at the same time as they hold a special place in the hearts of moviegoers. Cinema Treasures celebrates the past, present, and future of the moviegoing experience.
In addition to individual theater profiles chosen to represent over 100 years of moviegoing, the main attraction of Cinema Treasures is its tour through the history of U.S. theatrical exhibition - from the penny arcade and nickelodeon pioneers, to the designers and showmen of the movie palace era, the drive-in developers and widescreen visionaries, and the theater circuits of today.
Well-rounded and meticulously researched, this survey features an informative and engaging narrative filled with hundreds of beautiful photographs, vintage ads, and other fascinating images.
Contents:
Preface
I. Five and Dime: 1904 - 1912
II. Birth of the Palaces: 1913 - 1919
III. Chain Store Strategies: 1920 - 1925
IV. "Temples of Democracy": 1926 - 1932
V. Bust and Boom: 1933 - 1946
VI. Breakup, Breakdown & Breakthroughs: 1947 - 1962
VII. Splitsville: 1962 - 1974
VIII. Now Playing... Everywhere: 1975 - 1994
IX. Re-Screening America: 1995 - Present
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
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Opera House Lottery: Zaha Hadid and the Cardiff Bay Project
Nicholas Crickhowell
(1997)
Hardcover - 192 pages
University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708314422
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
When Zaha Hadid's exciting and controversial design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House won an international competition, but the project was turned down by the Millennium Commission, the news created a sensation that hit the front pages on both sides of the Atlantic. The story of how this came about tells us as much about politicians, about the way the National Lottery is run, and about the role of the popular press in shaping public opinion and public policy, as it does about the design of the building.
This is the story, told from the inside, of a dream that was shattered; of controversial decisions involving Michael Heseltine and Virginia Bottomley; of attitudes in the Welsh Office under five Conservative Secretaries of State; of in-fighting across political boundaries by MPs and local politicians; of a campaign by the Sun against elitism; of the way in which large international architectural competitions are managed and mismanaged; of the manoeuvring of celebrated architects; and of the betrayal of those most closely involved by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. The intricacies of this truly operatic plot are unravelled by the former cabinet minister who was at its centre.
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London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitor's Guide
Kenneth Allinson
(2003)
Paperback - 200 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750658487
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitor's Guide is a practical and highly-illustrated guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. In full colour throughout, this map-based book contains pithy and fascinating comments, plus lavish illustrations, of more than 130 examples of London architectural projects from the last two decades.
This third edition is completely up-to-date with the best and most interesting architecture of London, from the early 1980s right up to the first years of a new millennium for the city. As the book is logically arranged by geographical area, the reader is led on a physical and intellectual tour. This book directs the architectural enthusiast, professional or amateur, to the sites most worth visiting, and provides the essential background information for architectural appreciation. This includes references to the most significant and enjoyable of London's other architecture, of all periods.
Ken Allinson and Victoria Thornton possess a unique familiarity with London's architecture, serving on numerous public bodies and RIBA committees. Victoria is a founder of London Open House, an architectural charity that promotes the accessibility of London architecture. Ken is a practising architect, author of The Wild Card of Design and Getting There By Design, and also a studio lecturer at Oxford Brookes and Greenwich Universities. Together they currently run the research consultancy Architectural Dialogue, and for over seventeen years they have been researching and managing architectural study visits around the world.
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A Guide to the Architecture of London
Edward Jones, Christopher Woodward
(2000)
Paperback - 444 pages
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
ISBN: 1841880124
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This is the first guide to tackle all of London's building history, from its Roman foundations through to the massive expansion of the nineteenth century which made London the largest city on earth. With over 1000 entries covering a 30 km square section of London ranging from Harrow to Dulwich, Greenwich to Hampton Court.
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Bullring
Michael Hallett, Peter James
(2003)
Paperback - 120 pages
Tempus Publishing
ISBN: 0752430416
Synopsis by publisher:
A lavishly illustrated book documenting the reconstruction and development of Bullring in Birmingham, Europe's largest city centre, retail led regeneration project of recent decades.
Using a novel form of representation, the panoramic photographic construction, Michael Hallett has produced a series of fascinating colour montages that are works of art in their own right and yet are also a detailed record of the rebuilding of Birmingham's famous market and retail centre.
The colour images are accompanied by a new history of the Bullring as a market centre written by historian Chris Upton and several Birmingham photographers have contributed their own photographic images showing this historic site over the years.
The book has the official backing of the Birmingham Alliance, the investment group that was at the heart of the Bullring redevelopment project.
Michael Hallett is a professional image maker of wide experience and published photographic historian.
Peter James is Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library and Chair of the Committee of National Photographic Collections. He has curated major exhibitions in Birmingham and London.
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Landscape Graphics
Grant W. Reid
(2002 - New Edition)
Paperback - 216 pages
Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 0823073335
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A new revised edition of the classic industry reference, 'Landscape Graphics' is the ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents
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Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool
Joseph Sharples
(2004)
Paperback - 320 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300102585
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century Liverpool was one of the most prosperous towns in Britain, and one of the greatest ports in the world; for many of its citizens it was also a place of extreme poverty. Economic success is reflected in a wealth of late Georgian housing, extravagant Victorian and Edwardian office blocks, proud civic buildings, suburban parks, churches, and the unique architecture and engineering of the docks. Alongside these monuments stand buildings associated with public health and housing reform, illustrating the other side of Liverpool's story. A frenzy of rebuilding in the 1960s was followed by a long period of decline, now giving way to a new construction boom.
This guide book describes all the architecturally significant buildings in central Liverpool, and gives an account of the city's overall physical development. It includes some suburban areas of outstanding interest, and excursions to notable sites further out. Major buildings - such as the Town Hall, St George's Hall, and the two Cathedrals - are singled out for extended treatment, the streets of the business district are dealt with alphabetically, and the rest of the city - including the docks - is covered in a series of carefully planned walks.
The book is based on Nikolaus Pevsner's original text for the Buildings of England, augmented by close study of the buildings themselves, and extensive new research into published sources and original documents. Illustrated in colour throughout, mostly with specially commissioned photographs, but also with historical images, including building plans, maps, and architects' drawings, it is a detailed, authoritative, and practical guide to the buildings of a city which in 2008 will be European Capital of Culture.
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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Comprehensive Edition
Various
(2004)
Hardcover - 824 pages
Phaidon Press
ISBN: 0714843121
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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture presents a global survey of the most outstanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps locating each building, the book illustrates more than 1,000 completed buildings, and includes some of the most influential projects as well as many lesser-known buildings from around the world. Sections on World Data, Building Data and Architect's Biographies build up a detailed picture of the influences on contemporary architecture today. Every building type, from the largest publicly-funded art museums and airports to private houses, is covered, and each project is illustrated with colour photographs, line drawings and a descriptive text. The Atlas of Contemporary Architecture presents a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Eminent architectural critics, curators, journalists and practitioners from all parts of the globe were asked to nominate what they considered to be the most outstanding works of contemporary architecture in their regions and beyond.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias (Illustrator)
(1999)
Paperback - 352 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500280991
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business.
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Metric Handbook Planning & Design Data [2nd Edition]
David Adler (Editor)
(1999)
Paperback - 512 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750608994
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Originally devised as a guide for converting from imperial to metric measurements, 'The Metric Handbook' has since been totally transformed into a major international handbook of planning and design data. The second edition has been completely updated, with most chapters being totally rewritten, to meet the needs of the modern designer.
The book contains nearly 50 chapters dealing with all the principal building types from airports, factories and warehouses, offices shops and hospitals, to schools, religious buildings and libraries. For each building type 'The Metric Handbook' gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data.
Several chapters deal with general aspects of building such as materials, lighting, acoustics and tropical design. There are also sections on general design data, including details of human dimensions and space requirements.
It is a unique authoritative reference for solving everyday planning problems. In its various editions it has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide, and continues to be a reference work belonging on every design office desk or drawing board.
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Architecture and Film
Mark Lamster (Editor)
(2000)
Paperback - 256 pages
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568982070
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.
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Cinemas in Britain: 100 Years of Cinema Architecture
Richard Gray
(1996)
Hardcover - 144 pages
Lund Humphries
ISBN: 0853316856
Synopsis by publisher:
The cinema in Britain celebrated its 100th birthday in 1996. This fascinating study looks at the history of the cinema building in Britain, from its nineteenth-century origins right up to the present day.
The first purpose-built cinemas were little more than basic rectangular rooms. However, as the popularity of film-going grew in the 1920s and 1930s, the buildings became more complex and theatrical in atmosphere. These movie palaces could seat as many as 4000 people and often featured fantasy interiors, such as Egyptian temples and Gothic cathedrals. In the present day we have returned to the rectangular room, but now in the form of 'multiplex' screen cinemas.
Beautifully illustrated, this book not only provides a detailed architectural history of the cinema, but also evokes the magic of movie-going.
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The Story of Britain's Best Buildings
Dan Cruickshank
(2002)
Hardcover - 256 pages
BBC Consumer Publishing (Books)
ISBN: 0563488239
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Britain is covered with an extraordinary array of fantastic and brilliant buildings. There are more historic buildings of more styles in Britain than even in Italy. And, our favourites occupy a similar place in the national psyche as Robin Hood and Nell Gwynne. Britain's Best Buildings celebrates the bricks-and-mortar icons of our history that are well known and loved beyond all the others: Dan Cruickshank re-visits the stuff of legend but also reveals the stories behind the buildings. Like the life of any human being, there are highs and lows to the story of every building and as even the best-known celebrity has dark corners and secret closets to explore, so do Britain's best-loved buildings. To know a great building is to make it more our own - to know it even more will make us feel we have a stake in its past, present, and future. Each of the buildings is outstanding architecturally, yet each has strong personal stories behind their construction and as a whole they offer a journey through the nation's architecture and psyche from the 12th century to the present day.
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Antonio Gaudi
Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Melba Levick (Photographer)
(2001 - New Edition)
Hardcover - 285 pages
Abbeville Press
ISBN: 0789206900
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) is one of the best-known architects of the 20th century. Even today, some 75 years after Gaudi's death, his playful, exuberant buildings continue to influence architects, sculptors, and designers. Perhaps most identified with the dynamic, sculptural facades found on his structures, Gaudi is respected as much for his technological innovations as for his daring style. In this enlightening, portable volume, a concise, knowledgeable text by the director of the Catedra Gaudi at the University of Barcelona is brilliantly illustrated with 200 images by a gifted architectural photographer to provide a new perspective on Gaudi's remarkable career. The author traces the influences that led to the architect's definitive style, from his fascination with the Orient and Neogothicism to his love of naturalism and geometric forms. Here is the full range of his oeuvre, including the innovative residences for the Guell family; the daring new structural solutions at Bellesguard; architecture inspired by nature in the Park Guell; and finally his unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Sagrada Familia, which occupied him until his death. This handsome overview of Gaudi's visionary work is ideal for those who delight in his architecture, as well as those who look forward to traveling to Spain to see his monumental legacy.
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The Architect
Maggie Toy
(2001)
Hardcover - 184 pages
Academy Editions
ISBN: 0471495441
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This work aims to banish the notion of architecture as being a male-dominated field by showcasing the work of a wide variety of world-class women architects who have made significant contributions to the field of architecture. Beginning with an introductory essay by Maggie Toy, the book continues in a series of sections, each of which focuses on the work of a well-known architect. Each presents a portrait photograph of the architect; a Curriculum Vitae; a full biography; a statement about their most challenging project design - accompanied by plans, drawings and photographs; a list of the project types they have worked on; a list of their clients; a list of any awards they have received and work they have published. The architects featured include: Irena Bauman; Deborah Berke; Carolin Bos; Gabriele Bramante; Lise Anne Couture; Odile Decq; Elizabeth Diller; Merrill Elam; Karen Fairbanks; Katherine Finlay; Kathryn Gustafson; Zaha Hadid; Gisue Hariri; Itsuko Hasegawa; Christine Hawley; Margaret Helfand; Kate Heron; Patty Hopkins; Eva Jiricna; Sulan Kolatan; Amanda Levette; M.J. Long; Farshid Masavi; Victoria Meyers; Dagmar Richter; Kezuyo Sejima; Laurinda Spear; Billie Tsien; Nanako Umemoto and Sarah Wigglesworth.
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Sir John Soane and the Country Estate (Reinterpreting Classicism)
Margaret Richardson (Foreword), Ptolemy Dean, Martin Charles (Photographer)
(1999)
Hardcover - 208 pages
Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1840142936
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk and Sapling Editor:
Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was one of Britain's most inventive architects, whose achievements include the Bank of England and the world's first picture gallery at Dulwich. His country estate work, inspired by classicl antiquity, ranges in scale from the remodelling of existing country houses, such as Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire and Aynhoe Park in Northamptonshire, to simple outbuildings. Each reveals further the emergence of key themes of Soane's style and the results of his precise attention to proportion, design detail, and light and shade. Using the Soane Museum and country house archives, Ptolemy Dean examines ten of Soane's country house projects, reconstructing the creativity between client and architect. With the author's own drawings in watercolour to illustrate Soane's use of light and space, and photographs by Martin Charles, the text offers an insight into the work of this renowned architect. An illustrated inventory, a fully researched guide to Soane's country house practice, details Soane's architectural legacy. More recently, the book's author, Ptolemy Dean, has become well-known to TV viewers as one of the 'ruin detectives' in BBC2's 'Restoration' series.
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Scottish Architecture
Miles Glendinning, Aonghus MacKechnie
(2004)
Paperback - 224 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500203741
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A concise, up-to-date survey that provides for the visitor or resident an overview of Scotland's finest buildings and its long line of architectural geniuses.
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After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City
Michael Sorkin (Editor), Sharon Zukin (Editor)
(2002)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415934796
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The September 11 attacks transformed all of New York City, not just the historic financial district of lower Manhattan. In "After the World Trade Center", the social critics Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin call on nineteen of New York's best urbanists to consider the attack and its aftermath in the broadest context. These essays provide a panoramic social portrait of the city at a new crossroads, one that both reflects New York's pre-eminent role as a financial and cultural capital and reveals the fault lines under the last few years of rapid growth. The essays point to a manifesto for a democratically planned New York, where all the city's communities from Tribeca to Chinatown and Jackson Heights count. But while the city still digs through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild "ground zero". Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals. Architects and planners debate surveillance schemes over New York's boisterous public life, and proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. Though these processes are taking form, none has achieved a political consensus. Through a multitude of perspective on the emerging city, "After the World Trade Center" provides alternative visions to the expected landscape of power.
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New Architecture and Technology
Gyula Sebestyen, Christopher Pollington, Julius Rudnay
(2003)
Paperback - 240 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750651644
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This text explores the interrelation between architecture, materials and technology, highlighting the impact modern technology and materials have on architecture. The book explores the technical progress of building showing how developments, both past and present, are affected by construction technology. It also explores aspects of building technology within the context of general industrial, social and economic developments. The reader should aquire a vocabulary covering the entire range of structure types and learn a new approach to understanding the development of design.
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Modern House
John Welsh
(1999)
Paperback - 240 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0714838373
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The 20th century has produced some of the most innovative and memorable designs for private houses, which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s, the private house was the means by which architects established the early Modern Movement, and clients looked favourably on commissioning the avant garde. Today, the house is enjoying an architectural renaissance, as private clients have returned to architects to express their wealth and status. The result is a collection of innovative projects that reveal some of the real concerns of world-famous architects, and display the talents of younger designers eager to establish their reputations. The 30 houses from around the world included in this book were completed in the 1990s, revealing developments in house design by notable contemporary architects, and demonstrating continuing links with the work of the early 20th-century masters.
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Materials for Architects and Builders
Arthur R. Lyons
(2004)
Paperback - 326 pages
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750657251
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Materials for Architects and Builders covers the broad range of key materials used within the construction industry and is a descriptive introduction to the manufacture, key physical properties, specification and uses of the major building materials. This second edition has been fully updated to take into account new materials that have come into use since the first edition in 1996. In particular there is increased emphasis on environmental concerns, with new chapters on ecological and energy saving materials such as photovoltaics. The book is illustrated throughout with many photographs and diagrams showing materials and building components both individually and in use. Each chapter lists the British and European Standards, revised Building Regulations together with related Building Research Establishment publications and suggested further reading.
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Le Corbusier
Alexander Tzonis
(2002)
Paperback - 239 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500283192
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Exploring how Le Corbusier came to create the groundbreaking ideas, buildings and designs that changed the course of 20th-century architecture, this book presents his oeuvre in relation to the revolutionary global developments of the 20th century. Not since Palladio had anyone exercised such immense influence on architectural practice. Through buildings, urban projects, paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture designs and publications, Le Corbusier developed a unique poetics of machine and metaphor, revolutionizing the way people see, use and make architecture.
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After the City
Lars Lerup
(2000)
Hardcover - 208 pages
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262122243
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
According to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city and building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time and so forth. Lerup holds that architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Lerup moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. He takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis - for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier.
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Here Comes the Sun
Ken Worpole
(2000)
Paperback - 168 pages
Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861890737
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This work looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early 20th century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in between - the parks, squares, promenades and pools.
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England's Thousand Best Houses
Simon Jenkins
(2003)
Hardcover - 992 pages
Allen Lane
ISBN: 0713995963
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This volume presents an illustrated selection of the finest houses in the country. Jenkins does not limit himself to the great and famous houses and estates, though they are certainly included in full, but includes an eclectic mix from the very best towers, castles, halls, abbeys, cottages, private houses - even schools and prisons - in England, which are open to the public for at least some part of the year.
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Ecohouse 2
Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas
(2003)
Paperback - 352 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750657340
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
"Ecohouse" tells you how to design low-energy, environmentally friendly buildings. It provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and shows how to take the first step towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow. Here Sue Roaf reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy efficient design or "eco design". This edition introduces additional sections including earth sheltering and reed beds. It also explores ten case studies of ecohouses, and covers six examples of eco-villages from around the world. It offers a useful and comprehensive reference for architects, designers and their clients, as well as self-builders, who wish to help make sustainable design a reality.
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