The Lloyd's Building is an icon of a heroic moment in modern architecture and a major architectural landmark in the City of London. Described by one observer as a 'mechanical cathedral', its 300-foot silver and glass structure makes a startling impact in its context of city office blocks, and epitomizes Richard Rogers' concern with total flexibility and technological advance. Referred to by Rogers as 'history conscious, energy-conscious, functional...' and 'more dynamic than Pompidou', it is a forerunner of the new office architecture of the 1980s and 1990s and a pioneer of 'Intelligent buildings'. In this monograph Kenneth Powell charts the process of collaboration, partnership and inspired patronage which resulted in the construction of Lloyd's, and describes Rogers' search for 'balance between permanence and transformation'. In an introductory essay, Patrick Heron offers a deliberately personal and passionate assessment of the building as a 'purely aesthetic, purely visual experience', and a challenge to the distinction between aesthetics and physical usefulness.

Lloyd's Building: Richard Rogers Partnership (Architecture in Detail)

Arts & Photography

Kenneth Powell

Architecture

Phaidon Inc Ltd

The Reformation in Historical Thought

By any reckoning the Reformation has proved a giant among international movements of modern timesa catalyst for dramatic changes in intellectual life, social behavior, and material conditions. The authors examine the whole field of historical writing on this major segment of modern Western history, from its earliest struggle over the meaning of Christianity to the emergence of larger questions of human freedom, the development of objective attitudes, and research into social-religious structures. The Reformation in Historical Though will become the standard critical guide to the main developments of Reformation studies, as well as a stimulus to further research. Its vast scope and penetrating analysis will make it a classic of early modern European intellectual history.

History

A.G. DICKENS

John M. Tonkin

Europe

iUniverse, Inc.

The first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, award-winning, Manchester-based practice. Ken Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, explores their career and design philosophy in an introductory essay supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution. Stephenson Bell Projects is the first major monograph about Stephenson Bell Architects, the genuinely innovative, highly distinctive, Manchester-based practice. Their work has set the trend in the transformation of Manchester from a neglected post-industrial backwater into a young, vibrant city of international standing. Stephenson Bell's work is clean, beautifully detailed, and subtly modulated to its context. Theirs is what Paul Finch in his foreword describes as 'an architecture of synthesis', reflecting an attitude of respect and admiration for the historical, physical and psychological context of the city, working with rather than against what exists to create sympathetic contemporary designs. New offices such as Trinity Court and Eastgate and loft conversions such as the Smithfield Buildings have marked Stephenson Bell out as one the leading practitioners of regeneration architecture. They have won countless awards, most recently an RIBA Award for Deansgate Quay, which also won a 2001 Housing Design Award along with two other Stephenson Bell schemes. Also in 2001, Roger Stephenson has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Written by Kenneth Powell, the respected architectural critic and writer, this book explores Roger Stephenson's and Jeff Bell's careers and design philosophy and is supported by a project-by-project full colour photographic section. Each project contains a description of the building, the brief, the design challenge and the solution, and will be of interest to practising architects, students and the general public.

Stephenson Bell Projects

RIBA Publications Ltd

Ruins of Modernity: Erich Mendelsohn's Hat Factory in Luckenwalde

AA Publications

The Modern House Today follows on from F. R. S. Yorke's seminal book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of such influential modern practitioners as Lubetkin, Gropius, Fry, Mendelsohn, Chermayeff, Breur, Hill and Goldfinger on this important form of architecture. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern house through a combination of newly commissioned photography and documentary records. The architectural historian Kenneth Powell provides an authoritative and lively commentary to complement the numerous images.

The Modern House Today

Nick Dawe

Black Dog Pub Ltd

Sekai no kenchikuka zukan

Hiromi InoÌ„e

ToÌ„kyoÌ„ : HarashoboÌ„, 2012

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