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'Highly recommended is London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitors Guide, by Victoria Thornton and Ken Allinson. Making the most of their experience running architecture tours the book is crammed with maps and colour pictures with clear explanations about the design of the buildings.'
Evening Standard
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'A joy to read.'
Urban Design Quarterly
'Highly recommended is London's Contemporary Architecture: A Visitors Guide, by Victoria Thornton and Ken Allinson. Making the most of their experience running architecture tours the book is crammed with maps and colour pictures with clear explanations about the design of the buildings.'
Evening Standard
Review of the first edition:
'A joy to read.'
Urban Design Quarterly
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This second edition is completely up-to-date, and in colour throughout. It covers the best and most interesting buildings completed in London during the period 1984-1998. It is one of the few books available that covers London buildings designed and completed since 1980. It covers over 130 buildings and is supported by 100-150 photographs, with numerous line diagrams and a useful map based format.
Ken Allinson and Victoria Thornton possess a unique familiarity with London's architecture. Victoria serves on the Arts Council's Architecture Committee and RIBA's National Awards Committee; she was formerly editor of RIBA's London Review and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal published by the Prince of Wales Institute. Ken is a practising architect, author of The Wild Card of Design and Getting There By Design, he is a member of the RIBA's Architecture Centre exhibition committee, and studio lecturer at Oxford Brookes and Greenwich Universities. Together they currently run Architectural Dialogue, a research consultancy operating in the interfaces between clients, professionals and lay-people. For over seventeen years they have been researching and managing architectural study visits in the centres of major architectural interest around the world. Being residents of London they are particularly knowledgeable about its architecture and architects, and have produced a map guide to contemporary London buildings.
*Now in full colour throughout
*Clear, easy to follow map based format
*Fully updated second edition covering new key modern buildings
Ken Allinson and Victoria Thornton possess a unique familiarity with London's architecture. Victoria serves on the Arts Council's Architecture Committee and RIBA's National Awards Committee; she was formerly editor of RIBA's London Review and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal published by the Prince of Wales Institute. Ken is a practising architect, author of The Wild Card of Design and Getting There By Design, he is a member of the RIBA's Architecture Centre exhibition committee, and studio lecturer at Oxford Brookes and Greenwich Universities. Together they currently run Architectural Dialogue, a research consultancy operating in the interfaces between clients, professionals and lay-people. For over seventeen years they have been researching and managing architectural study visits in the centres of major architectural interest around the world. Being residents of London they are particularly knowledgeable about its architecture and architects, and have produced a map guide to contemporary London buildings.
*Now in full colour throughout
*Clear, easy to follow map based format
*Fully updated second edition covering new key modern buildings
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Charles Birch's griffin, poised upon a pillar designed by Horace Jones, sits in the Strand opposite George Street's Royal Courts of Justice (1872-84) and marks the western-most boundary of a part of London rich in architectural interest, perhaps more so than any similarly sized area in the metropolis. Read the first page
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Charles Birch's griffin, poised upon a pillar designed by Horace Jones, sits in the Strand opposite George Street's Royal Courts of Justice (1872-84) and marks the western-most boundary of a part of London rich in architectural interest, perhaps more so than any similarly sized area in the metropolis. Read the first page
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Allinson and Thornton's guide to the architecture of London is a refreshing addition to the existing assorted architectural guides, most of which could be classified as either exhausting-scholarly, or trendy-chic. London's Contemporary Architecture belongs to neither of these categories, indeed its most obvious merit is that it is an eminently practical and hands-on guide: it's clearly structured, and along with often more than one colour photograph for each building, it has overview- and detail maps, plans, axonometries and even conceptual diagrams just when and where they are needed. In this the guide is eclectic and utterly usable, it's to put in one's bag rather than on one's shelf, and the format and weight are just right for that. The descriptions give that critical information which is most relevant to the buildings' appreciation, and the undogmatic mixing-in of historical architectural gems is enlightening and a successful didactic move: bringing out the newness and the continuity in the contemporary. While the overall design of the book - choice of font and colours - might seem a tad too funky for the 'serious' business of architectural touring, it in a way reflects the authors' engaged and heartfelt concern with their object: they clearly love London's architecture and want their readers to see it with them: as in the Wordsworth's poem on London with which they preface the book: A sight so touching in its majesty ... Earth has not anything to show more fair.
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