Lang and Moleski argue here that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the 20th-century Moder..
This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. Focusing on three..
This book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist build..
Women continue to be very under-represented in the architectural profession, which has become defined by a narrow middle-class, heterosexual, Eurasian..
This book is about a lost world - albeit one less than 50 years old. In the era of Harold Wilson's 'white heat', architect Sir Leslie Martin proposed ..
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Brit..
The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretica..
There have been five different settings that have contained the dead body of Atatürk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and fi..
Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space, such as in libraries, workplaces, churches and museums. This book..
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examine..
Focusing on various contexts within Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book traces the myths and application of luxury within a..
Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides a truly global ex..