Add to ORKGLast week, LSE’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre was shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize. In this Reading List we bring together a selection of inspirational books on the relationship between buildings and their users. Urban scholars, architects, and sociologists will all find exciting ideas amongst these pages
Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think abou...
This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuo...
Professional and academic advancement regarding the special link we have with our spaces and its eff...
Buildings are often assumed to have “life”. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay,...
While design practices are generally seen as a major driver for shaping debates and trends in archit...
The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental ...
Dense and green building typologies. Research, policy and practice perspectives by Thomas Schr\uf6pf...
Are skyscrapers one of the few remaining opportunities for individuals to contribute something long ...
"This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, Jo...
Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbani...
A book review of Modern Buildings in Britain. A Gazetteer, Owen Hatherley (hbck, 605pp, Penguin
It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarter...
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This...
Economic globalisation has facilitated a glut of ‘spectacle’ works of architecture worldwide that of...
This paper examines some of the planed townscape changes affecting large city centre conservation ar...
Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think abou...
This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuo...
Professional and academic advancement regarding the special link we have with our spaces and its eff...
Buildings are often assumed to have “life”. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay,...
While design practices are generally seen as a major driver for shaping debates and trends in archit...
The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental ...
Dense and green building typologies. Research, policy and practice perspectives by Thomas Schr\uf6pf...
Are skyscrapers one of the few remaining opportunities for individuals to contribute something long ...
"This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, Jo...
Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbani...
A book review of Modern Buildings in Britain. A Gazetteer, Owen Hatherley (hbck, 605pp, Penguin
It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarter...
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This...
Economic globalisation has facilitated a glut of ‘spectacle’ works of architecture worldwide that of...
This paper examines some of the planed townscape changes affecting large city centre conservation ar...
Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think abou...
This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuo...
Professional and academic advancement regarding the special link we have with our spaces and its eff...