
On the Street
In-Between Architecture
Edwin Heathcote(Author)
Heni Publishing
Published on 24. November 2022
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-912122-53-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
284 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912122-53-0 (9781912122530)
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Person
Edwin Heathcote is a writer living and working in London. He has been the architecture and design critic of the Financial Times since 1999 and is the author of over a dozen books including The Meaning of Home.