The book offers a profound exploration of property ownership, revealing its dual nature as both a pathway to wealth and a tool for exploitation. It critically examines how property has influenced modern society, highlighting its role in displacement and the power dynamics among the wealthy elite. By situating property at the heart of various societal issues, the author argues that it now poses a threat to the very freedoms and stability it was intended to uphold.
`A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain De Botton
A behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life, methods and work of contemporary painter Jock McFadyen RA by architecture critic Rowan Moore, accompanied by 130 beautiful reproductions of the painter's work.
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain. Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free.
Hawkins\Brown are London based architects who have been described as "... one of the most exciting young practices of today." (Architecture Today). This extensively illustrated book considers key projects in terms of contemporary architecture, exploring their creativity, diversity and tenacity. Projects covered include the acclaimed new gallery for the Henry Moore Foundation, studio space for the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, as well as projects that focus on sustainability in architecture, as with the Women's Pioneer Centre, London. Hawkins\Brown are at the forefront of British architecture with an established reputation for combining imaginative design with pragmatism. Whether they are breathing new life into existing structures or building anew, each of their schemes are unique, focusing on the needs of the client and the community.
Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.
This book features Nicholas Grimshaw's work from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, which includes some of Europe's most prestigious in Berlin he was planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he built on the success of his Financial Times printing plant with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which was completed to wide acclaim.
