In this original and indispensable book, Christine Madrid French reveals Hitchcock's relation to the built world was informed by an intense engagement with location and architectural form - in an era marked by modernism's advance - fueled by some of the most creative midcentury designers in film.
Hans Ulrich Obrist celebrates the art of handwriting with a collection of aspirational Post-it notes from world-renowned contributors to his ongoing Instagram project.
An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance
Mark Gorman examines the key role played by popular protest in the mid-Victorian campaigns to preserve Epping Forest and other open spaces in and near London at risk of its unbridled growth. He shows how such places were venues for both radical politics and popular leisure, helping to create a sense of public right of access, even 'ownership'.
Locations from TV shows, movies, books and computer games are plotted on maps of real-life cities, helping you pinpoint where these fictional worlds are set in real life.
A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original style by Tim Waterman. Exploring power and democracy, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries.
The Labyrinth of Rooms is a story with one character, Human, who is an allegorical representation of us all. Human suddenly awakes in a square room with no memory of a prior life.
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh (known as Auld Reekie) came to be regarded as the Athens of the North. Why was this? How was the notion invented? What were its consequences? Topography, architectural development, literary and social history are all examined in a quest to give meaning to an epithet known by many but understood by few.