Böcker i Ashgate Studies in Architecture-serien

Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - this book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain 1900-1939.

The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's.

Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austrian architect and, indeed, Loos himself made a direct reference to the importance of the German architect for the development of contemporary architecture and education. Rather than focussing on Loos's relation to Schinkel through a systematic analysis of projects, this book places the relation between the two master architects within a larger-frame comparative approach. It makes a parallel examination of Schinkel and Loos's strategies in regard to the metropolis or GroAYstadt. Referring to theories of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Camillo Sitte, Schmarsow and Merleau's Ponty, sets the two architects within their urban context - in Schinkel's case, it is a city on the verge on becoming the industrial metropolis; in the case of Loos, it is the fin-de-siecle world metropolis marked by Wagner, Kokoshska, and Freud. The book is divided into two sections, each consisting of two essays about Schinkel and two essays about Loos. The first section examines their concern for the city at large and their views on the Baroque and the classical and their ideas for the transformations of the modern, bourgeois city. The second section of the book analyses Schinkel's and Loos's works in light of the traditional conflict between the individual and the collective that characterize the large city and the metropolis in particular.

In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical. This book focuses on this unique programme in postmodern design and also on the debates which were taking place with the Socialist government.

Focusing on England between 1935 and 1959, this book examines a selected group of innovative buildings and environments that were designed for children or addressed their needs, such as playgrounds, schools, community centres, hospitals, dwellings and neighbourhoods.

Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides an exploration of the relationship between architecture and nationalism. It includes essays grouped together in three thematic sections: Revisiting Nationalism, Interpreting Nationalism and Questioning Nationalism.

Provides a comprehensive and diachronic investigation of the ways in which architecture and urban space mediate the intersections of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. This book questions certain established dichotomies such as that of the imperial center and the colonized periphery; the colonial past and the postcolonial present; and, more.

When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. The story of Aberdeen is just such as example. This book examines the development and design of Aberdeen city.