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Phoenix
"Phoenix Architecture/Art/Regeneration records a unique experiment in urban regeneration in Coventry. Taking a rundown and forgotten area of the city, it creates a series of new and contrasting public spaces that form a new route from Basil Spence's Cathedral to a new Garden of International Friendship. The garden, and many other aspects of the scheme, celebrate Coventry's association with the international movement for Peace and Reconciliation, following the city's devastating destruction in the Blitz during the Second World War"--Page [4] of cover.
Arcade
This documentation of the work surrounding the regeneration of the Gorbals area in Glasgow looks at the issues surrounding urban public art, raising questions about its place and value in the 21st century.
Five Hundred Buildings of New York
Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of New York come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book.
Transparent Drawing
Architect Kurt Ofer has formulated an utterly unique way of drawing, which gives a superior understanding of form. By following the method of "transparent drawing," you ignore an object's opacity and see beyond its surface, allowing you to draw it in a very distinct and holistic way.
Architecture and Authorship
Architecture and Authorship is a collection of 17 essays by leading international architectural historians that explore issues of authorship, ownership and 'copyright' in architecture. The book includes both contemporary and historical case studies, tracing how since the fifteenth century, architects and architectural movements have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory - the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style. Case studies include domestic space; eighteenth century landscape gardens; the Berlin of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; postmodernism and the 'Death of the Author'. The book also exp...
The Illegal Architect
The Illegal Architect follows two simultaneous journeys, one conceptual, from the professional architect to the illegal architect; the other physical, from the Royal Institute of British Architects to the Institute of Illegal Architects sited directly in front of it. Hill's book is a proposal for an architectural producer, unrestrained by professionalism and responsive to the creativity of the user, who questions and subverts the conventions, codes and laws of architecture. 27 colour & b/w illustrations
Studio Time
Future Fictions - Future Literacy - Future Ethics.
Education and Contextualism
Education and Contextualism focuses on Architects Design Partnership's work for schools, universities and colleges. The book begins by placing the founding of the practice against the cultural backdrop of Britain in the 1960s, with the death of Winston Churchill, the emergence of The Beatles, and the foundation of many 'redbrick' universities. The reader is then taken on a journey through ADP's development, taking in their major educational projects, which encompass a wide variety of purposes - auditoria; halls of residence and boarding houses; support and leisure services; education spaces for specialist subjects such as Art, Technology, Sport, Medicine; and Information Technology and E-lea...
Thinking Practice
Presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice.
