This book presents a broad outline of the development of architectural styles and movements in Britain. Designed to encourage readers to go out and explore, a concise but extremely readable text provides the cultural and historical contexts necessary to understand the place of a building in architectural development, with the author's own line drawings illustrating important examples. Chapters cover the Anglo-Norman Romanesque style and the transition to Gothic, medieval parish churches, castles and houses, Tudor architecture, Jacobean domestic building, and two seminal figures in architectural history, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. The story continues with Mannerism, the Baroque, Palladianism, early examples of town planning, including Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh New Town, neo-Classicism and the Gothic revival, and finishes with the movements and styles that have characterized this century. Both a pocket guidebook and a compact history of architecture, Britain, A Guide To Architectural Styles will enable anyone interested in our built heritage to see it with more knowledgeable eyes.

Britain: A Guide to Architectural Styles from 1066 to the Present Day Second Edition

History

Pragnell, Hubert

Europe

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

Catalan language and culture revitalized after years of repression and new prosperity have fuelled a local design boom. This new guide examines a broad range of recent architecture and urbanism in the city, and provides an understanding of the historical and political contexts that have shaped the place. 150 b/w photographs.

Barcelona: A Guide to Recent Architecture

Travel

Strum, Suzanne

While the Swiss have the reputation of being reluctant to push ahead and of being skeptical of the new, the past two decades have seen an extraordinary number of innovative buildings realized by a generation of young architects. Reacting against the light-hearted and colorful imagery of post-modernism, the fragmentation of deconstructivism, and the accelerating fashion in styles of building, architects are looking towards a more generic architecture, an architecture searching for articulation devoid of predetermined formal meanings - without style. The minimalist 'box', so often associated with Switzerland, is one way to break with convention and Switzerland finds itself in the center of international architectural attention today. Far from being exhaustive, the selection of projects in this guide aims to provide an insight into around 100 projects with access for visitors. Many of the projects are located far from the bustle of cities, making it easy to combine a skiing or hiking holiday with an architectural excursion - Switzerland has a finely tuned tourist industry. Those not entirely satisfied by the architecture will have the consolation of the stunning landscapes.

Switzerland: A Guide to Recent Architecture

Huber, Maya

Hildebrand, Thomas

Huber, Maja

This is a guide to contemporary spaces in New York. It covers significant and entertaining galleries.

Art New York: A Guide to Contemporary Art Spaces

Tichar, Sian

Battista, Kathy

Arts & Photography

Marc Almond's writing - verse and prose - concentrates on the city, the night, red light and low life, the same scenes which appear in his lyrics. 'Prostitutes, hustlers, porn stars, strippers, gangsters, pimps, dominatrixes, transsexuals, madams, sub-culture celebrities, superstars...' He burst into prominence in the early 1980s with Dave Ball with the first successful British electro-duo - Soft Cell. They mixed disco and northern soul with lyrics of melancholy stories of low-life characters, bedsit life and city survival, and thus set the blueprint for groups such as The Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Pulp and Suede. Marc spent the 1980s producing a range of albums, always surprising and taking his audience in new directions. Dirt and glitter continue to be common themes in his work, as are the love and romance and loneliness of city life and the hopes, dreams and unfulfilled aspirations of the city's inhabitants, from the bordello to the high-rise.

Beautiful Twisted Night

Literature & Fiction

Almond, Marc

Poetry

A detailed examination of the advertising mogul and art collector Charles Saatchi, a man who is estimated to spend 2 million a year buying contemporary art, displaying it in his own gallery in north London and, famously, at the 'Sensation' exhibition which opened at the Royal Academy before touring to Berlin and the Brooklyn Museum, an event that provoked an extraordinary clash between art and politics. Regarded by many as a modern Medici, Saatchi exercises tremendous power in the international contemporary art market. He can make and break artists' reputations, and he has had the power to define the character and direction of recent British art. Surprisingly, this is the first book to look at Charles Saatchi as art collector. While it quotes a range of opinions, the book is primarily a critique written from a socialist standpoint, applying ideas derived from a number of sociologists including Marx, Moulin and Veblen.

Supercollector: A Critique of Charles Saatchi

Walker, John A.

Hatton, Rita

History & Criticism

Elegant, haunting and arresting, the film and video works of Jane and Louise Wilson have attracted increasing acclaim and attention, culminating in a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. The twins specialize in supremely vivid evocations of a particular spirit-of-place, drawing on cinematic conventions and allusions to conjure a heightened, often uncanny atmosphere. This monograph, which features a specially commissioned essay by Jeremy Millar, covers their career to date, encompassing their various short tapes and films as well as the powerful, hypnotic projection installations that have made their names.

Jane and Louise Wilson

Humor & Entertainment

Millar, Jeremy

Doherty, Claire

Movies

Londonunlike other great European capitalswas never planned on a grand scale, but evolved as one village merged into its neighbors. The landscape character of the modern city is the sum of its parts: parks, public open spaces, squares and waterways. The last few years of the twentieth century saw a flurry of new landscape activity, due largely to National Lottery funding. Almost for the first time, designers from abroad, notably from the US and France, have been working here, bringing fresh ideas and new strategies. This book looks at almost 70 projects, from neighborhood parks and recreation grounds to piazzas in commercial developments (including what may be the world's largest patio), from linear parks designed to open up the banks of the Thames, to the Diana Memorial Playground in Hyde Park. All have been designed in the last ten years and together they are proof of an area of urban design that has discovered a new sense of experiment and purpose. Beautifully illustrated with 140 specially commissioned b/w photographs.

Landscape London: A Guide to Gardens and Urban Spaces

Hare, Charlotte

Architecture

A selection of the author's iconoclastic weekly columns in Building Design is now made available, decorated with the author's own extremely bad drawings, to those without access to the benefits of the architectural trade press. Alighting on subjects broadly architectural, Self talks you through a trip on an open-top bus in London, a visit to Barratt Homes and marvels over the ugliness of Cologne. His targets and objects of affection are as diverse as Pictish broughs; the SIPSocracy and autogeddon; the dignity, or otherwise, of labor; and Norman Foster's plane. Will Self takes this opportunity to scratch at the sore places and follies of modern life - the Millennium Dome, the Diana cult, Berlin, the new Getty Center, the Cotswolds; to promote his heroes - J G Ballard, Thomas De Quincey, Julian Jaynes; and to share his observations on topics ranging from Eric Gill's dress sense (and exotic sexual practices) to his own experiences as a hod carrier.

Sore Sites

Politics & Social Sciences

SELF, Will

Social Sciences

An opinionated and selective tour of around 70 museums, highlighting the fantastic diversity of the collections open to the public in the five boroughs. Subjects range from the internationally renowned (the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney, etc) to the local (the African-American Wax &amp; History Museum of Harlem) and the obscure (the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art). In New York there is an institution to cater for every conceivable interest and this guide is designed to help visitors head straight for the best, while New Yorkers will find reports of findings from many little-explored parts of town. 150 b/w photographs. About the Ellipsis New York Guides: Selective, opinionated, and packed with reasonably up-to-date information, these guides will be indispensable both for those in the know and those who know that's where they want to be. Each book features critical descriptions of the best, the most interesting and the exemplary, illustrated with specially commissioned photographs.

Museum New York: A Guide

Chaves, Joseph

Agathocleus, Tanya

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