Yale University Press

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women

Peter Guillery discusses what we can learn from the modest and largely forgotten London houses built in the 18th century for artisans and labourers. In so doing he examines the effects of creeping industrialisation and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth.

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?

A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture's place in the contemporary moment

This new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer outer-London, with its early Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at Waddesdon.

Inigo Jones is regarded as the first English classical architect. Originally published in 1966, this book reassesses Jones' life and career, clearing away the myths of attribution the have been built up around him. It is enhanced by a revised bibliography, and a new foreword and notes.

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone