This is the first book on two of the most eminent British architects of today. With distinguished careers spanning nearly four decades, their works separately and, since 1989, in partnership range from the Royal Opera House in London to Mississauga City Hall in Canada and from the Henry Moore Gallery in Leeds to the Darwin College Study Centre in Cambridge.

Dixon Jones: Buildings and Projects by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones

Arts & Photography

Swenarton, Mark

Latham, Ian

History & Criticism

Right Angle Pub

"This is the first full monograph of one of the most influential architectural firms to have emerged in Britain in the past two decades. Following their victory in their very first competition, Allies &amp; Morrison have gone on to design some of the most admired projects of the past 20 years, including the British embassy in Dublin, the University of Cambridge Sidgwick campus, and Arsenal stadium. In this full study their buildings and projects are documented by drawings, photos, and essays by critics, with comments by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison themselves."

Allies & Morrison: Buildings & Projects 1983-2003

Homes Fit For Heroes (Routledge Revivals)

Homes Fit For Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain (Routledge Revivals)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

Routledge Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Encompassing a vast range from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Routledge Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with Routledge, restoring to print books by some of the most influential academic scholars of the last 120 years. Book jacket.

Architecture

The tradition of thought stemming from John Ruskin and William Morris was important in its own day and has continued to exert a powerful influence on architectural thought in the twentieth century and even today it is still widely regarded as the authentic "socialist" tradition. The real nature of Ruskinian architectural thought is the questioned in this full-scale study of the subject. Organized as a series of studies of the major figures involved - John Ruskin, Philip Webb, William Morris, W.R.Lethaby, Raymond Unwin and A.J.Plenty - the book explores the roots of this school of thought in German Romanticism (and particularly in idealist philosophy), unravels its uneasy relationship with Marxism and the socialist movement, traces its continuing role in twentieth century architecture, and concludes with a critique of its value and validity for the 1990s. Based on unpublished archival sources, this book is a major reinterpretation of a central strand in Western architectural thought. Mark Swenarton is the author of "Homes fit for Heroes" and a regular writer on contemporary issues in architecture, particularly for the weekly "Building Design".

Artisans and Architects: The Ruskinian Tradition in Architectural Thought

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes – which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane – set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time, including Neave Brown, Benson &amp; Forsyth and Peter Tábori, and also commissioned up-andcoming practices such as Colquhoun &amp; Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context. This book examines how Cook and his team created this new kind of street-based housing, what it comprised, and what lessons it offers for today. New colour photographs by Tim Crocker combine with the original black and white photography by Martin Charles to give a fascinating 'then and now' portrayal not just of the buildings but also of the homes within and the people who live there.

Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing

History

Europe

Lund Humphries

Throughout the 20th century, there were periods when there was urgent demand for housing to accommodate the rapidly increasing population (or rebuilt following wars). Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high-density living are revisiting these seminal designs as they seek to develop their own solutions to our current housing crisis. Chronologically ordered, this book provides a unique survey of over 80 seminal housing projects from across Europe which were constructed during the 20th century. Together with concise contextual history and analysis, each housing study includes carefully redrawn context plan, plans and sections (some also include elevations) which are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable. Beginning with Parker & Unwin' s Hampstead Garden Suburb (1907), case studies include housing by Aalto, Le Corbusier, Moretti, Markelius, Tá vora, Atelier 5, Utzon, Stirling & Gowan, Ungers, Brown, Rossi, Siza Vieira, Valle, Nouvel and MVRDV.

Housing Atlas: Europe - 20th Century

Espegel, Carmen

Pierini, Orsina Simona

van Gemeren, Dick

DASH 4 focuses on residential floor plans as a locus for innovation within the confines that architects always face--a conservative construction industry, limited budget, etc. Essays examine the tradition of mass residential construction in the Netherlands, through projects by Diener & Diener, Kenneth Frampton, MVRDV and others.

DASH 04: The Residential Floor Plan: Standard and Ideal (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing)

Van Hoogstraten, Dorine

van den Heuvel, Dirk

GOLDHOORN, BART

nai010 publishers

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