Atlas of Never Built Architecture
£49.95Discover more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects that never made it off the drawing board
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The Iconic House
£25.00A handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design, featuring over 100 of the world’s most significant residential buildings. ‘The Iconic House’ features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. International in scope and wide-ranging in style, the houses share a remarkable sensitivity to site and context, an appreciation of local materials and building traditions, and a careful understanding of clients’ needs. Each, however, has a unique approach that makes it groundbreaking and radical for its time.
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London
£12.99A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library. But these buildings are not just functional. They are evidence of London’s rich and diverse history and have shaped people’s experiences, identities, and relationships. In this study, Paul L. Knox traces the history of London from the Georgian era to the present day through twenty-five surviving buildings. Knox explores where people lived and worked, from grand Regency squares to Victorian workshops, and highlights the impact of migration, gentrification, and inequality.
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London
£15.99Delight in all the hidden spaces and curious corners that London has to offer with the Sunday Times bestselling author Jack Chesher, as he uncovers the city’s best-kept secrets.
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A short history of British architecture
£12.99The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. ‘A Short History of British Architecture’ is the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, from prehistoric Stonehenge to the lofty towers of today.
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The alienation effect
£35.00As the horrors of fascism ran riot through Europe in the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans, most of them Jewish and many of them artists, fled their countries seeking sanctuary in an imperial island at the edge of the continent. The world they found when they reached these shores – damp, grey and parochial – was a far cry from the modernity and dynamism of Weimar Berlin, Red Vienna or modernist Prague, but it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever. In this book, historian Owen Hatherley leads us into the technicolour world of this exiled generation of artists and intellects, from celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger to forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass.
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Forgotten churches
£15.99A journey across some of the quietly spectacular rural churches of England, telling their stories and significance, and building a picture of how they trace the history of the nation. Written by Luke Sherlock (@EnglishPilgrim) and illustrated throughout by Ioana Pioaru (@IoanaPioaru).
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Operation Bowler
£25.00The thrilling true story behind the Allies’ mission to take back Venice from the Germans – and save its artistic and architectural treasures.
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The Strand
£25.00This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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A short history of British architecture
£26.99The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. ‘A Short History of British Architecture’ is the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, from prehistoric Stonehenge to the lofty towers of today.
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Radicals, rebels and royals
£16.99A beautifully illustrated alternative history book, tracing the history of the British Isles through its landmark pubs with recreations of their pub signs in stunning colour.
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Church going
£25.00Churches are many things to us – they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history. Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. ‘Church Going’ is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.