The English Buildings Book
English Heritage
The English Buildings Book celebrates the immense diversity of our built environment. It covers buildings of all periods, from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present, and of all types, from pubs to windmills, cathedrals to cycle sheds. The book is arranged in a series of 17 chapters, each covering one category of buildings – for example, parish churches, buildings for education, buildings for hospitality – and each is packed with examples, both typical buildings that illustrate the history of the type and unusual or eccentric structures that are off the beaten track of most architecture books. This broad-church approach makes the book the most comprehensive and adventurous volume of its generation on architecture in England. Illustrated with superb colour photographs by eminent photographer Peter Ashley, The English Buildings Book is also a visual delight.
Restoration, Restoration: The Story Continues, and Restoration Village
Headline / English Heritage
The books of BBC2’s three Restoration series, including the most recent, Restoration Village, provide a guided tour of the buildings featured in the programmes, setting them in their local contexts. The text describes how each structure was built, explains how it came to be at risk, and outlines the plans for its future. These books provide a fascinating glimpse into a variety of buildings, such as farms, factories, country houses, swimming pools, mills, and theatres.
The Shock of the Old: A Guide to British Buildings
Channel 4 Books
An exploration of the most significant eras of British architecture from the Roman period to the present, The Shock of the Old shows how many of the best buildings of the past, far from being part of a quaint homogenous ‘British heritage’, were dramatic statements of new form, innovative technology, or sheer eccentricity.
Amazing Buildings
Dorling Kindersley UK and USA
An inside look at 20 of the world’s most extraordinary buildings, from the Roman Colosseum to Toronto’s Skydome.
WINNER of the American Institute of Architects Award
for the best children’s book on architecture.
Building
Dorling Kindersley UK • Knopf USA
An addition to DK’s award-winning Eyewitness series, Building provides a unique insight into how all kinds of buildings are constructed. Includes the uses of different materials; how walls, roofs, and vaults are put together; the creation of decorative effects from plaster cornices to stained glass; the art of the stone-carver and the mosaic-maker.
DK Pockets: Buildings and Castles
Dorling Kindersley UK and USA
Appealing, pocket-format guides to the history of the world’s architecture. Sections on the major styles and building types.
Super Structures
Dorling Kindersley UK and USA
Explores the world’s most amazing engineering feats (towering skyscrapers, million-ton oil platforms, vast bridges) explaining how they were built and showing their structures in graphic detail.
Architecture
