Built for Britain by Peter Ashley

Built for Britain: Bridges to Beach Huts

by Peter Ashley    To be published by Wiley July 2009

Liverpool One: The Remaking of a City Centre by David Littlefield

Liverpool One celebrates the completion of the Liverpool One development, and its contribution to the regeneration of the city of Liverpool.

About the book:

As well as focusing on the design, planning and development of this new quarter of Liverpool, Liverpool One provides the background to Liverpool’s social, cultural and economic development.

The book includes a preface from the Duke of Westminster, as well as comments from well-known architectural journalists, development specialists and local historians.

Liverpool One features stunning new photography by principal photographer Paul Mcmullin with additional photography by Steve Gorton and Alan McKernan and archive photos, which tell the story of its history and redevelopment.

April 2009 | 978-0-470-71409-6 | £39.99/€50.00 | Hardback

Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions by Edward Denison & Guang Yu Ren

Published by Wiley, June 2008

Modernism in China is a unique look at China's transformation in the early Twentieth Century and its expression through a revolution in architecture and design.

With nearly five millennia of architectural heritage, China boasts the longest continuous architectural development in human history. A hundred years after the dawn of the 20th century and the urban landscape of the world’s most populous country, along with some of the world’s oldest architectural methods, had been transformed completely. Linking unrivalled ancient tradition with the giddy rhetoric exuded by the high-rise, glass-clad, lust-for-wealth that characterises China’s 21st century architectural aspirations, is a period of modernisation that revolutionised its architectural language and urban fabric.

New Directions in Contemporary Architecture: Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988 by Luigi Puglisi

Published by Wiley, April 2008

Through its story-telling dimension, New Directions in Contemporary Architecture traces the last 20 years of Western architecture focusing attention on the current situation that includes designers’ eclecticism and style, the star system, urban and landscape design as well as the influence on architecture exerted by the so-called ‘digital revolution’. A number of historical events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11th and the energy crisis underline the narrative flow of the book, as the urgency of these events pose critical questions of architecture.

Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren, authors of Building Shanghai and Modernism in China, take the Foreign Secretary on a tour of Shanghai

Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren, authors of Building Shanghai (Wiley 2006) - and the forthcoming Modernism in China (Wiley, July 2008) - took the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband on a tour of Shanghai, during his official visit to China, on Tuesday 26th February.

Read Edward Denison's account of the event...

Six Wiley Architecture Titles Long-Listed For The 2008 RIBA Book Awards

AD: Cities of Dispersal

By Rafi Segal and Els Verbakel

Published by Wiley, February 08

This issue of Architectural Design focuses on ways in which urban sprawl – areas of unstructured development with constantly expanding low-density housing – can be redesigned and rethought by interventions from architects and urban designers. Looking particularly at the issue of public place and the way that collective space can be redefined and articulated, this highly topical issue responds to the need for architectural design to engage in social issues and existing urban forms rather than attempting to create idealized conditions or merely iconic buildings.

Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings

By David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis

Published by Wiley, November 07

If a building could speak, what would it say? Architectural Voices discusses the ways that architects go about redeveloping old buildings. In particular, it examines how architects respond to the ‘voices’, ‘spirit’ or ‘character’ within the buildings...

The Temple Architecture of India

By Adam Hardy

Published by Wiley, December 07

The Temple Architecture of India is a lively and accessible book which allows readers to appreciate the concepts underlying the often bewilderingly intricate designs of Indian temples. It also covers the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples, from their conception to the author’s visions for their future...