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Palladio's Children

Essays on Everyday Environment and the Architect

By N.J. HabrakenEdited by Jonathan Teicher

Based on many years of personal observation, Palladio's Children critically examines the role of the architect as a professional descendent of Palladio, and as an…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35791-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Garden History

Philosophy and Design 2000 BC–2000 AD

By Tom Turner

Tom Turner, well-known teacher and writer in landscape architecture, garden design and garden history here explores more than 150 gardens over four millennia of Western…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31749-8 (Routledge)

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Utopias and Architecture

By Nathaniel Coleman

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70085-6 (Routledge)

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Building Desire

On the Barcelona Pavilion

By George Dodds

In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32524-0 (Routledge)

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Urban Memory

History and Amnesia in the Modern City

Edited by Mark Crinson

Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33406-8 (Routledge)

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Ernö Goldfinger

The Life of an Architect

By Nigel Warburton

In writing this important new book, Nigel Warburton researched the extensive archive of Goldfinger's writing, office papers, models and drawings held in the RIBA Collection…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37945-8 (Routledge)

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Building Change

Architecture, Politics and Cultural Agency

By Lisa Findley

Building Change investigates the shifting relationships between power, space and architecture in a world where a number of subjected people are reasserting their political and…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31876-1 (Routledge)

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The Transparent State

Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this book questions the prevailing assumption…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70019-1 (Routledge)

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Understanding Architecture

By Dr Hazel Conway, Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch

Understanding Architecture gives the first ever all-inclusive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Exceptional in its approach, it explores architecture as a current practice in…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32059-7 (Routledge)

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Peter Shepheard

Edited by Annabel Downs

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35110-2 (Taylor & Francis)

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