Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) could easily have made a career out of pattern design alone, so celebrated were his ingenious textiles and wall ...
The Barbican is one of London's landmarks and Britain's largest listed buildings, yet its architects, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon (CPB), are little-known today. Their ...
The new Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridges Botanic Garden, opening in late 2011, will be the leading international centre for the study of plant science, ...
Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles ...
Thriving port, dereliction, renaissance as a vibrant business center: few places in Britain have seen such extreme changes of fortune as London's Docklands. This ...
Beginning with the bidding process, planners for London's 2012 Olympics envisioned nothing less than a transformation of East London with permanent structures that would ...
Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is based around six of Sheffields famous and not so famous brutalist buildings. Twenty artists and writers from ...
Mark Wallinger (b. 1959) is a British painter, sculptor, and installation and video artist whose work is notable for addressing political and moral issues. ...
A highly detailed look at the English country house interior, offering unprecedented access to Englands finest rooms. In this splendid book, renowned historian Jeremy ...
After a fine training at the Architectural Association School and then work experience in the practices of Rogers and Foster, English architect David Chipperfield ...
This roll-call of British artists confirms the dominance and excellence of British art across five centuries, from Blake to Banksy, Turner to Tracey Emin. ...
This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican ...
Estos textos suponen una importante aportación para el conocimiento y la comprensión de los elementos que configuraron una verdadera evolución de los diferentes estilos ...
The Development of English Building Construction was originally published in 1916. Its author, C. F. Innocent, had an great passion for his subject and ...
La posibilidad de una arquitectura estrictamente funcional, aceptada en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, procede del siguiente argumento: en arquitectura, como en la ...
A dazzling showcase of hidden jewels by the masters of twentieth-century modernist architecture in New England. Tomorrows Houses is a richly photographed presentation of ...