Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) is noted for his pre-war Hampstead house, preserved with all its contents by the National Trust, and for his high-rise housing ...
This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of ...
In 1909, one of the world's great cities, London, finally sanctioned steel-frame architecture. For the previous quarter century, a new structural material - steel ...
John Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. As the man responsible for ...
One of England's greatest Victorian architectural practices was based, not in London, but in the relatively quiet town of Lancaster. For just over a ...
Dr. John Schofield is the Cathedral Archaeologist of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He was an archaeologist at the Museum of London, specialising in ...
First hailed as a wonder of the new industrial world, to later 19th-century commentators the name Ancoats became synonymous with dark satanic mills and ...
This is a new edition of English Heritage's widely acclaimed study of that great British institution, the public house. First published in 2004, this ...
Bedford Lemere & Co was the pre-eminent English firm of architectural photographers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Taking photographs at a ...
Measured and Drawn sets out to show how, through working closely with historians, conservators and archaeologists, optimum documentation can be achieved by metric survey. ...
The most comprehensive single volume on English architecture for the general reader, this book celebrates the English built environment, which is the richest and ...
