Iain Borden Livres

Presents the only complete history of skateboarding, exploring the story of skate subculture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today

Explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world, illustrating cultural history, urban history, art, literature and music. This book is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games.

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates, street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book riveting.

A comprehensive guide for architecture students to writing a dissertation. It takes the student through starting, writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation, as well as suggesting what to do after the dissertation has been completed. Subjects covered include how to write a proposal, which research methodologies and techniques to adopt, which libraries and archives to utilise (including special architectural resources on the Internet), and how to structure, reference and illustrate the dissertation. Finally, the book suggests alternative methods of undertaking dissertations, whether as video, prose writing, multimedia or other forms of expression.

How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? This book provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. It takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces.

Focusing on the dissertation process for architecture students, this guide offers essential insights and resources. It covers key topics such as research methodologies, project development, and effective presentation techniques. With practical advice and examples, it aims to equip students with the tools necessary for successfully navigating their dissertation journey, ensuring they understand both the academic and creative aspects of their work.

A hands-on attitude to architecture, trademark of the highly successful London-based practice Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, calls for more than the usual monograph. According to Iain Borden, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture and author of this detailed guide to the practice of AHMM, it calls for something more like a manual. From Millenium Dome pavilion to medical centre and social housing for the Peabody Trust, from office building refurbishment to primary school and the Walsall bus station, the extra-ordinary diversity of the AHMM s projects testifies to their creative energy, optimism and eagerness to experiment. AHMM: four architects with numerous awards to their name and a rapidly-growing international reputation for innovative, pragmatic and cost effective solutions. This publication presents their collected works, fully-detailed and with a wealth of illustrations. Both monograph and manual - because architecture is about more than appearances.