The scene of writing: the architecture and art depts, Foyles, Sun 17 May 2004.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Landscapes
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - the Bechers were the godparents of the big Germanism large-format photography style (Gursky, Struth, Ruff, Burtynsky etc) that dominates today.
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies [of Industrial Buildings]
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - watertowers, gasholders, public sector infrastructure everywhere.
Bruce Bégout: Zeropolis: The Experience of Las Vegas
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)
Thomas Campanella: Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)
Ruth Eaton: Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - the motherlode for anyone who likes Joseph Gandy or Boullée
Gilman and Riley: The Changing of the Avant-garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - idealized, fantastic, and utopian architectural drawings mainly from the 1960s and 70s.
Parasite Paradise: A Manifesto for Temporary Architecture and Flexible Urbanism
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming), found by Galloway.
Norbert Schoenauer: 6,000 Years of Housing
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)
Anthonis van der Wyngaerde's The Panorama of London Circa 1544
(amazon.co.uk), folio-style book of facsimile and diagrams, found by Hill, and now shelved in our humidity-controlled mountain headquarters.
Bonus book, seen afterwards: Ports and Airports: 100 Amazing Views.
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