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Websites
The Architects' Journal
www.ajplus.co.uk
UK-based e-zine with information, articles, book reviews and more on many aspects of architecture.
Architecture.com
www.architecture.com
The extensive website run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It features events listings, advice on finding and engaging an architect, and information on the organisation's other activities, including awards, education and competitions.
The Art Show
www.channel4.com/…
Channel 4 website that looks at the role art plays in modern society, with a feature on brutalist architecture.
Barbican
www.barbican.org.uk/gallery/Libeskind.htm
The Barbican Art Gallery is currently exhibiting 'The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind', which runs until 23 January 2005.
Docomomo
www.docomomo.com
Docomomo stands for 'Documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement'. Its mission is to foster interest in and protect important Modern Movement buildings. The site is an extensive European resource.
The Great Buildings Collection
www.greatbuildings.com
Architecture gateway site with buildings from within and outside the Modernist tradition, listed by architectural style and building type, featuring biographies of architects and 3D models, drawings and images.
The Prince of Wales
www.princeofwales.gov.uk
Prince Charles' official website features transcriptions of his speeches on, amongst other things, contemporary architecture – including the infamous 'carbuncles' speech addressed to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1984.
Risky Buildings
www.riskybuildings.org.uk/index.html
The companion to the Twentieth Century Society's website, featuring an illustrated and documented list of the buildings thought to be under most threat at the moment. Good photographs and detailed accounts of the buildings.
The Twentieth Century Society
www.c20society.demon.co.uk
This organisation aims to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards. The website features a 'building of the month', events listings and extensive links.
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Architecture 04: The RIBA Awards edited by Tony Chapman (Merrell Publishers, November 2004)
Official guide to all this year's RIBA awards, including the Stirling Prize announced on Channel 4 in October 2004.
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Architecture 03: The RIBA Awards edited by Tony Chapman (Merrell Publishers, 2003)
Official guide to all of the RIBA awards 2003, including the Stirling Prize.
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Daniel Libeskind: The space of encounter by Daniel Libeskind and Aaron Betsky (Thames and Hudson, 2001)
Beginning with Libeskind's first major architectural project in 1979, this book contains a collection of his writings, including project proposals, letters, speeches and articles, by which he intends to demonstrate the underlying processes that drive his work.
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Modern Architecture: A critical history by Kenneth Frampton (Thames and Hudson, 1992)
A revised edition, providing a survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins, with a new final chapter and a reviewed and extended bibliography.
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Norman Foster: Catalogue of work (Prestel Publishing, 2003)
Reflects the work of Norman Foster, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize – the architectural equivalent of the Nobel Prize – and is a survey of the work of his practice with descriptions of more than 120 buildings and projects.
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Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier and Frederick Etchells (Architectural Press, 1991)
One of the most influential architectural manifestos of modern times.
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A Vision of Britain: A personal view of architecture by HRH Prince Charles (Doubleday, 1989)
Prince Charles' personal plea for urban development that preserves what he sees as the unique character and tradition of British towns and cities.
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