Product Description: Darkitecture is an anthology of texts and projects exploring how we learn about architecture and build buildings for real communities in the twenty-first century. It draws on the ideas and methods of the late architect Gerrard O’Carroll, a vibrant and unorthodox thinker, reprinting his own writings and statements alongside texts and projects by his contemporaries and alumni...read more

Product Description: The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works...read more

Product Description: Ecstacity is many things: a fat visual book to get lost in, to explore and to evoke the experience of the future city; a document of cities as they emerge around us; a guide to our condition in the coming century; a framework to match ourselves with any city we are in...read more

Combining areas of Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, architect Nigel Coates presents 'Ecstacity'. It is a place of cultural clashes and hybrids. where the real and imaginary sit side by side in a kaleidoscope of colour, drawings, maps, photographs and words.

Product Description: Godalming's early prosperity came from water power supplied by the River Wey and plentiful wool from the sheep folded on the high ground. Building stone was quarried from the surrounding hills, while timber came from the nearby Wealden forest...read more