Vicky Richardson

New Vernacular Architecture

Wouter Vanstiphout

Sam Jacob

Alastair Donald

Gwen Webber

To accompany its exhibition at the British Pavilion during the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, the British Council collaborated with The Vinyl Factory to produce a special book (featuring four different covers) named after the show: A Clockwork Jerusalem.Ranging from Stonehenge to council estates, Ebenezer Howard to Cliff Richard, ruins and destruction to back-to-the-land rural fantasies through architecture, records and books, A Clockwork Jerusalem explores the culture and products of British modernity as an architectural project and as a wider cultural experience.It reflects and records the arguments raised in the exhibition and charts the emergence of a particular form of British Modernism, as interpreted by the show's curators, Sam Jacob (FAT Architecture) and Wouter Vanstiphout (Crimson Architectural Historians).Published with four different cover images, this book has been conceived as more than a catalogue, featuring essays by the curators and architecture commentator, Owen Hatherley, that propose questions about how the past can inform the future of British architecture.Published to accompany the exhibition at The British Pavilion, Venice, 7 June - 23 November 2014.

A Clockwork Jerusalem

"New Vernacular Architecture considers the synthesis of modernity and tradition in contemporary architecture. Focusing on 37 international examples of buildings of different types completed in the last decade, it examines architecture that reinterprets rather than revives traditional forms, materials and construction techniques. The projects covered range from better known works by renowned architects such as Michael Graves, Renzo Piano and David Chipperfield, to less familiar buildings in Hungary, Nepal, Latvia and elsewhere." "The fragmentation of nation states and the greater plurality of political and cultural identities that have occurred over recent years have led to a growing reaction in architecture against "global blanding" - the worldwide homogenization of images and designs. As a result, local context, materials and culture are becoming increasingly important concerns for many architects. Architecture has captured the public imagination as a means of lending form to evolving regional identity and as a way of reflecting difference. Each project features a thoroughly researched and detailed commentary, and is generously illustrated with photographs, sketches and plans."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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