Innovative and original approach to architecture and urban planning that takes account of the economic as well as the human cost of awful building and proposes a very different solution.
Great houses such as Holkham, Sissinghurst, Chatsworth, Burghley and more modest loveliness such as Kelmscott too. Also images of that elusive idea of 'quintessential' Britishness - fly fish... read more
Eye-stretching and ebullient examples of Italian Brutalism - many very beautiful - from the publishing team that brought us Soviet Bus Stops a few years ago and other architectural wonders.
A wander through the city's various districts by one of Korea's foremost architects: his love of old Seoul, with its low-rise neighbourhoods and narrow streets, is palpable.The Korean taste ... read more
To accompany the exhibition at MoMA about the history of enironmental thinking in architecture and focussing on the moving lines between ecology, design and politics.
From Arts and Crafts and Art Deco through Modernism, Postmodernism and emerging bright sparks: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Berthold Lubetkin, Richard Rogers, Seth Stein, et ali... read more
Vol 1 (on country houses) came out in April; this second volume covers gardens, Delhi, Washington; vol 3 will follow next year. These are large, folio-sized and magnificent.
A hefty and well-illustrated work of scholarship that engages with all aspects of architecture in the British Isles from towns and villages to military and industrial buildings.
A revised and updated edition in the Buildings of England series. (Please note that Yale will increase the price of this three months after publication.)
Hurrah for the second issue of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining magazine! Contributors this time include Celia Paul, A.N. Wilson, Christopher Woodward of the Garden Museum, Henrietta ... read more