Heathcote, Edwin, author.

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

London : HENI Publishing, [2022]

285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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 -- Publisher's website 20230818

1912122537
9781912122530

Streets Accessories.
Outdoor furniture.
Streets Accessories Pictorial works.
Outdoor furniture Pictorial works.
Architecture and photography.
Rues Accessoires.
Meubles de plein air.
Rues Accessoires Ouvrages illustrés.
Meubles de plein air Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture et photographie.
outdoor furniture.

Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Location: Library main 318232
Call No.: 318232
Copy: 1
Status: Available