Owen Hopkins Livres

An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles

This seventh edition serves as a comprehensive reference for classic architecture, offering updated insights and illustrations. It explores key architectural styles, principles, and historical significance, making it an essential resource for students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike. Enhanced features and contemporary examples enrich the understanding of timeless design elements, ensuring relevance in today's architectural discourse.

Accessible guide to understanding the buildings around you

This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features. Unlike other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up. An original and accessible take on the architectural dictionary, this book takes you on a visual tour of the buildings and structures around us.

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings.

Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, Nicholas Hawksmoor emerged as architect of some of the most powerful, creative and enigmatic buildings London has ever known. Hawksmoor's spires, churches, and other known works are featured on this map, with details and an introduction written by Owen Hopkins and original photography by Nigel Green. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, Nicholas Hawksmoor emerged as architect of some of the most powerful, creative and enigmatic buildings London has ever known. Hawksmoor's spires, churches, and other known works are featured on this map, with details and an introduction written by Owen Hopkins and original photography by Nigel Green.

Discover London's brightest, boldest, and most eclectic architecture with this guide to Postmodernism in the capital. Featuring over fifty buildings, this two-sided map includes photography, building details and an introduction. Written by Owen Hopkins, with original photography by Nigel Green. Published by Blue Crow Media.

Charting Hawksmoor's career and the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works - notably his three East End churches - and shows how over their history Hawksmoor's buildings have been ignored, abused, altered, recovered and celebrated.

An in-depth exploration of the forgotten buildings of postwar Britain, charting their evolution from ambitious concepts to abandoned constructions.

In the late 1970s a new movement emerged in British architecture. Driven by a feeling that modern architecture had run its course, architects associated with what became known as postmodernism began to explore how architecture might once again draw from historical styles, re-engage with cities as they existed, and employ colour, symbol and decoration in ways that were meaningful and popular. This book features interviews with eight figures associated with postmodernism, reflecting on the inspiration, ideas and influence of a pivotal moment in British architecture. Exhibition: Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK (16.05.-27.08.2018).