Architecture

Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities and adapt their practice so that we might continue to live together in the future. Architecture after COVID is the first book to explore the pandemic’s transformative impacts upon the architectural profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice – from the transformation of building typologies to a radical re-evaluation of the conditions of architectural practice itself.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 192 pages • 37 bw illus PB 9781350271067 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350271074 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350271098 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350271081 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Health and Architecture

The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era

Edited by Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University, USA Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology. Deploying new methodological, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the analysis of healthcare facilities, the essays in this collection demonstrate how the spaces of healthcare themselves offer some of the most potent and functional articulations of therapy.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 392 pages • 100 bw illus PB 9781350217416 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350217379 ePub 9781350217393 • £90.00 / $125.02 ePdf 9781350217386 • £90.00 / $125.02 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Notes on a Discipline

Mark Jarzombek, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, USA In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton—between those who design, and those who build, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the ‘invisible’ complements to the work of the architect. This provocative book will stimulate conversations among students, researchers, and designers, as it pushes the boundaries on how we define the professional discipline of architecture and overturns entrenched assumptions about the nature of architectural history and theory.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 368 pages • 201 color illus PB 9781350326118 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350326125 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350326149 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350326132 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Making the Arctic City

The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North

Peter Hemmersam, Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 272 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350235861 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350235854 ePub 9781350235885 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350235878 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Colonial Margins

Spatial Cultures of Provincial Governance in Eastern India

Tania Sengupta, UCL, UK Though much has been written about large urban centres of governance in India, such as Calcutta, Madras and New Delhi, it was the provincial towns that actually represented the colonial establishment’s larger territorial grip over the vast interior landscape and that provided a vital scaffold for the more central sites of governance. Colonial Margins explores the buildings and townscapes of these administrative towns during the period of British rule, showing how the architecture and urban form of these provincial towns are archives of the complex historical processes that informed colonial urbanisation.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 336 pages • 250 colour illus HB 9781350159396 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350159419 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350159402 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

H Blocks

An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland

Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton, UK Based on a long-standing site-specific investigation at Long Kesh/Maze prison, and drawing on a range of sources from architectural plans to photographs of street protests, H Blocks explores the material relationship between the prison as a built articulation of power and its inhabitants, highlighting the ethical and political roles that architecture can play in situations of conflict. It also addresses the afterlife of such sites after the end of conflict and how they can adapt to the changing cultural meanings of their space.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350240025 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350240049 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350240032 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

John Dalton

Subtropical Modernism and the Turn to Environment in Australian Architecture

Elizabeth Musgrave, University of Queensland, Australia Featuring previously unpublished archival documents, this book addresses the work of Australian mid-century modern architect, artist, and activist, John Dalton (1927-2007). It argues that Dalton’s work signalled an “environmental turn” in architecture in Australia from the 1960s onward that involved the integration of environmental with cultural considerations through relational thinking, and which preceded and transcends the discipline’s fascination with theoretical paradigms such as Critical Regionalism.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 272 pages • 80 bw illus HB 9781350291515 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350291539 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350291522 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Architecture, Planning, and Art Criticism – Berlin, Bauhaus, USA

Scott Colman, Rice School of Architecture, USA Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Ludwig Hilberseimer’s legacy has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by his long-standing collaborator Ludwig Mies van der Roh, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, it is now clear that he was an important Bauhaus teacher and central to avantgarde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic. This book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer’s work and writings.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 384 pages • 75 bw illus HB 9781350068025 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350068049 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350068032 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

PAGON

Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956

Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway This book tells the story of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group’s projects, buildings, and approach. Despite its individual members achieving international recognition, PAGON has been overlooked in the history of modern architecture. This book demonstrates how PAGON’s architecture constitutes a unique continuity between late 1930s Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 304 pages • 75 bw & 33 color illus HB 9781350067981 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350068001 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350067998 • £72.00 / $100.29 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Architecture and Retrenchment

Aesthetics, Spatial Practices and the Neoliberalisation of the 1980s Welfare State

Helena Mattsson, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden Architecture and Retrenchment investigates the relation between architecture and the Swedish Model of the welfare state, tracking the response of architecture to the welfare state's gradual retrenchment and ultimate dismantling. Through eight in-depth case-studies, the book situates the often abstract, generalised discourse of neoliberalism and privatisation in specific architectural sites, and provides an original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages • 69 bw illus HB 9781350148222 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350148246 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350148239 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Reconstruction

Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War

Edited by Neal Shasore, London School of Architecture, UK & Jessica Kelly, University for the Creative Arts, UK Reconstruction explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of the First World War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. Written by leading and emerging scholars, this collection of essays considers the complex effects of reconstruction on design, discourse, practice, and professionalism, and deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, and makes important postcolonial interventions into the architectural history of British Imperialism at home and in its far reaches.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 416 pages • 86 bw illus HB 9781350152946 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350152960 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350152953 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Queering Architecture

Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies

Edited by Marko Jobst, Independent Scholar, UK & Naomi Stead, Monash University, Australia Featuring contributions from a wide range of significant voices from around the world, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the ‘queer’ in the context of architecture, posing a bold challenge to the normative methods employed in architectural discourse while addressing the paradoxical nature of establishing ‘queer’ methodologies in itself. The volume is divided into four subsections - methods, practices, spaces, and pedagogies – in order to help particularize the proposed queering of architecture. Essential reading for both architectural and queer theorists.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages • 47 bw illus HB 9781350267046 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350267060 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350267053 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts