Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…
Architecture
Space, Hope & Brutalism: A Conversation with Elain Harwood
Many of us in Britain are familiar with the uncompromising Brutalist architecture that can be found throughout the…
Windows Should Dream… Pevsner & Stained Glass
The subject of stained glass windows has become an increasingly important aspect of the Pevsner guides, both in…
Xerxes, The Builder of Persepolis: Part I
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, is the focus of a lively new biography…
In the Steps of the Medici: A Walk Through Renaissance Florence
Put on some comfortable shoes (or just imagine putting them on!) and join us in our Italian holiday…
Pevsner People Power: The Aldeburgh petition
‘The counties of England implicitly argue in their architecture that our ancestors knew what they were about and…
For the love of cider: Pevsner in Suffolk
Author James Bettley on Nikolaus Pevsner in Suffolk, his practices and an ongoing mission of vision and revision…
Interview with David Adjaye, by David Ebony
Postcolonial Realism: The Architecture of David Adjaye Merging the worlds of architecture, art, and design in a unique way,…
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture
‘Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles’, proclaimed Sir Walter Scott. New…
David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material
David Adjaye is one of the most exciting and important architects and designers of his generation. Yale is…
Art and Architecture of Ireland: From Start to Finish
A new group of deeply researched books covering the Art and Architecture of Ireland (AAI) in 5 volumes, is…
Albert Speer: An Artist Under Hitler
‘When Speer’s father saw the model of Berlin, he responded to his son, “You’ve all gone completely insane”.’ Albert…
5 books to watch (and read) in 2015
We’ve had an exciting year here at Yale UP London, with highlights such as a Nobel prize-winning author,…
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIALS IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHURCHES
In this centenary year of the Great War, Pevsner author Simon Bradley explores some rarely seen memorials to…
Pevsner Guides: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire & Peterborough
Yale’s Pevsner Architectural Guides series has continued to grow during 2014, and now includes a revised volume on Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire…