This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focusing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capitals financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth c...Daugiau...
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist po...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Apr-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300269208)
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist po...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Dec-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262048415)
An exploration of the dramatic transformation of Londons financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior.In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Mar-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Hoxton Mini Press, ISBN-13: 9781914314162)
A photographic celebration of 68 of Londons most iconic and innovative council buildingsFrom Brutalist blocks to Modernist towers, this book is a visual celebration of 68 of Londons most iconic council estates, reminding us of the pride, thought...Daugiau...
This book conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction. Balancing the social, the topographical and the visible aspects of the great city, author A...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-May-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198859116)
When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unf...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the countrys favourite national treasures - but most of its...Daugiau...
Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent o...Daugiau...
Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent o...Daugiau...
In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London which Le Corbusier called revolutionary. Three years later, Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II f...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jun-2015, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape, ISBN-13: 9781909155091)
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914, when they vied to be the worlds greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relations...Daugiau...
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914, when they vied to be the worlds greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relations...Daugiau...
This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, Londons historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300190229)
The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both...Daugiau...
The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hosp...Daugiau...
The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hosp...Daugiau...
This book is a powerful wake-up call to all architects. It speaks about the meaning of architecture in circumstances that appear very different to those with which we are familiar in the West. The line of enquiry always revolves around the question o...Daugiau...
