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
- ISBN10 0080524931
- ISBN13 9780080524931
- Publish Date 25 May 2006 (first published 30 June 1997)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Architectural Press
- Edition 4th Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 265
- Language English