Butterworth Architecture intend this series of Architect’s Guides to provide architects (and all those primarily interested in architecture) with a compact historical summary and description of over a hundred buildings in each city selected. The guides accordingly cover the fullest possible historical range, but unlike tourist guides describe buildings in full depth of architectural detail, as well as including a comprehensive section, in every case, on twentieth century architecture up to the present day. In addition every guide contains a description of a key design element characteristic of each city, not so much a building as a metaphor for that city. For London, the author found the great range of traditional shop signs exemplary.
In the late twentieth century urban planning and design has become a subject of key importance to all cities, and each city demonstrates its own historic solutions, as well as their related problems and the way in which these are being solved. A city is not only a collection of buildings: it has its own special environment, often more precious and fragile than the individual buildings which created it.
The urban development of London is dealt with here in some detail in view of its unique development as a collection of towns and villages that have gradually come together to form a variegated yet cohesive whole under the seemingly overwhelming pressures first of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and secondly through the growth of twentieth-century communications and technology. This volume being nonetheless a particular selection reflects the personal taste, and prejudices too of the author. In the text this is balanced, and enhanced perhaps, by some of the best known authorities on English architecture, such as the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir John Summerson, Sir James Richards, Henry Russell Hitchcock, and the late lan Nairn, and others to whose works the reader may further refer (see Bibliography).
Finally, since we are dealing with a book in which the illustrations must play a primary role, both author and publisher wish to express their thanks to all those, photographers and librarians, who have given their co-operation. Their gratitude first of all to Romano Cagnoni and Frank Monaco, who dedicated so much time and energy as professional photographers. Thanks also to the librarians of the main photographic collections in London, and to the staff of the National Building Record and of the former Greater London Council. Staff of the British Travel Association were also of considerable assistance in the detailed preparation of the material.

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Architect's Guide to London

Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd

Butterworth-Heinemann

Architectural Press

Martindale-Hubbell

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

September 1989

1st, 1990

lg2834026

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Includes index.

07 Maps
09 Foreword
11 Introduction
20 Bibliography
22 ROMAN LONDON
1. Roman Wall / 2. Temple of Mithras
24 THE NORMAN HERITAGE
3. White Tower / 4. St. Bartholomew-the-Great
26 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
5. Temple Church / 6. Westminster Abbey / 7. Westminster Hall / 8. Southwark Cathedral / 9. Tower of London
34 THE TUDOR RENAISSANCE
10. Chapel of Henry VII / 11. Hampton Court/ 12. St. James’s Palace / 13. Charterhouse / 14. Middle Temple Hall / 15. Queen’s House, Tower of London
39 CLASSICAL AND BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE IN THE XVII CENTURY
The Dutch influence: 16. Kew Palace / 17. George Inn /18. Cromwell House / 19. Holland House / 20. Charlton House.
Inigo Jones: 21. Queen’s House / 22. Queen’s Chapel / 23. St. Paul Covent Garden / 24. Banqueting Hall / 25. Ashburnham House / 26. Lindsey House / 27. Eltham Lodge.
Sir Christopher Wren: 28. St. Mary-le-Bow / 29. St. James’s Piccadilly / 30. St. Stephen Walbrook / 31. Chelsea Hospital / 32. St. Paul’s Cathedral / 33. Greenwich Hospital / 34. Hampton Court / 35. Morden College / 36. Orangery, Kensington Palace.
Baroque churches: 37. St. George-in-the-East / 38. St. Anne Limehouse / 39. St. Mary Woolnoth / 40. Christ Church / 41. St. John Smith Square / 42. St. Paul Deptford / 43. St. Mary-le-Strand / 44. St. Martin-in-the-Fields / 45. Grosvenor Chapel.
62 GEORGIAN LONDON: PALLADIANISM AND NEO-CLASSICISM
The Palladians: 46. Chiswick House / 47. Mansion House / 48. House in Berkeley Square / 49. Horse Guards.
Neo-Classicism: 50. Manresa House / 51. Somerset House / 52. Kew Gardens / 53. Strawberry Hill / 54. Home House / 55. Syon House / 56. Osterley Park / 57. Royal Society of Arts / 58. Ken Wood House / 59. All Hallows London Wall / 60. Greenwich Hospital Chapel / 61. Dover House/ 62. Richmond Bridge / 63. House in Cloth Fair / 64. Queen Anne’s Gate / 65. Lower Mall, Hammersmith / 66. The Paragon.
78 THE TWO FACES OF THE XIX CENTURY
Regency - Sir John Soane: 67. Chelsea Hospital Stables / 68. Dulwich Art Gallery / 69. Sir John Soane’s Museum / 70. St. John Bethnal Green
John Nash:71.The Regent’s Park-Regent Street plan / 72. Lloyd Square / 73. Belgravia / 74. Keats House / 75. Woburn Walk/ 76. Drury Lane Theatre.
Iron and glass: 77. St. Katharine Docks / 78. Covent Garden Market / 79. Greenhouse, Syon House / 80. Palm House, Kew Gardens / 81. The Railway Stations.
Neo-Gothic: 82. Houses of Parliament / 83. Tower Bridge / 84. All Saints, Margaret Street.
From Arts & Crafts to Art Nouveau: 85. Red House / 86. Lodge, Kew Gardens / 87. Swan House / 88. House in Bedford Park / 89. Studio in St. Dunstan’s Road / 90. Whitechapel Gallery / 91. Horniman Museum.
100 XX CENTURY ARCHITECTURE: A SERVICE TO SOCIETY
92. High Point Flats / 93. Sun House / 94. Roehampton / 95. Bousfield School / 96. Royal College of Art / 97. The South Bank Arts Centre / 98. Ismaili Centre / 99. Clore Gallery / 100. Economist Building.
108 Shop signs
113 A further selection of buildings
116 Acknowledgements
117 Index

A guide book for architects, covering 101 existing buildings in London including buildings from the 1980s. It is fully illustrated with location maps, plans, sections and photographs

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