We shall deal here with humble things

16 November 2012

Essay by Dr Barbara Penner, published online at Places.

Postcolonial History of Architecture and Urbanism

16 November 2012

An innovative new book has just been written by Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, based on his PhD thesis at the Bartlett School of Architecture. 

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Ridwan's Postcolonial History of Architecture and Urbanism: Power and Space of Indonesian Tin Mining in Bangka Island extends Indonesian ...

Concrete and Culture

Professor Adrian Forty’s new book Concrete and Culture: a Material History has been published by Reaktion Books. 

From Trains to Automobiles: Motorised Experiences of Landscapes

Essay by Iain Borden. This short essay explores different mobile experiences of cities and landscapes, beginning with train journeys in the nineteenth century before turning to automobile journeys over the last hundred years ...

Short Stories; London in two and a half dimensions

Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders ...

'The Limehouse Link: the Architectural and Cultural History of a Monumental Road Tunnel in London's Docklands'

Article by Iain Borden. In the Docklands area of London lies the 'Limehouse Link', a dual-bore road tunnel used by around 80,000 cars each day. A monumental and highly expensive piece of ...

Weather Architecture

Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging the influence of the client, contractor and engineer ...