Research Catalog

Title

On the street : in-between architecture / Edwin Heathcote.

Author

Heathcote, Edwin

Publication

London : HENI Publishing, [2022]

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Details

Description

285 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

• A series of 101 essays and personal recollections by Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic at The Financial Times. Illustrated with photographs by Helen Levitt, Brassaï, Vivian Maier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others. -- Publisher's website 20230818
• There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it. Benches, bollards, streetlights, signs, barriers, post boxes, phone booths - they are the physical manifestation of public infrastructure, a network of goods between architecture and the body. In this book, Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of the Financial Times, looks at the cultural impact of street furniture using photography as a measure of how these things have become indispensable components of the cityscape. Based mainly in and on London - but including New York, Paris and Budapest - Heathcote uses history, personal reflection and the lenses of photographers to examine the status of these urban artefacts in both the contemporary imagination and the city streets themselves. It looks at the changing landscape of the cityscape and the way in which street furniture has been adapted to address new technologies, the culture of surveillance and shifts in taste, orthodoxy and material culture. On the Street looks at the language of street furniture reflected through the glaze of photography and contemporary culture. It is a book about the elements of the streetscape which can exert an increasing impact on our interaction with the cities we inhabit --

Subject

• Streets > Accessories
• Outdoor furniture
• Streets > Accessories > Pictorial works
• Outdoor furniture > Pictorial works
• Architecture and photography
• Streets

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Includes index.

Call Number

JQE 24-279

ISBN

• 1912122537
• 9781912122530

LCCN

2023445858

OCLC

1330197219

Author

Heathcote, Edwin, author.

Title

On the street : in-between architecture / Edwin Heathcote.

Publisher

London : HENI Publishing, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JQE 24-279