A contemporary of the famous landscape designer `Capability' Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised ...
"London's Contemporary Architecture" is a practical, visual and analytical guide to the best modern buildings in the British capital. Now in its fifth edition, ...
Manchester: Shaping the City demonstrates the constant spirit and originality of Manchester's people and the physical, social and economic improvements, which continue to drive ...
Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. ...
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became ...
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...
Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the ...
Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school. His masterpieces featuring mythological subjects are thought ...
Il volume è il catalogo della mostra personale di Zaha Hadid, ospite d'onore della quarta edizione della Biennale internazionale di Architettura "Barbara Cappochin", a ...
For the first time a comprehensive and engaging account of one of Britain's most significant postwar practices, Powell & Moya, has been chronicled in ...
This new title in the highly-successful "Design Series" features the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of the British pop ...
Over the past two decades, Anthony Caro (b.1924) has moved on from the steel sculptures with which he achieved international standing to explore the ...
John McLean (b. 1939) has been likened to British art's secret weapon: a self-propelled missile whose long career has been an unfettered exploration of ...
Luminosity, open space and quick movements characterize Winifred Nicholson's paintings. Flowers on windowsills are a favorite subject, not only for their intrinsic beauty, or ...
Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of French Baroque wre replaced by artificial landscapes which ...