Architectural History and Styles

The massive map includes all of the parks, woodlands, playing fields, nature reserves, city farms, rivers, canals, and all the spaces that contribute to London's parkland. Some of the most iconic walks through and around London are drawn along with symbols marking places to swim outdoors, climb peaks, pitch a tent or go kayaking.

For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....

This is a meticulously researched and liberally illustrated account with exquisite drawings of key people and selected works. Biographic profiles for Modernist engineers, architects, artists, patrons and designers.

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.