Edward Jones is the co-author, along with the late Christopher Woodward, of the Guide to the Architecture of London, which, originally published in 1983, is now in its fifth edition and has become the definitive guide book of the subject. In 2017 the guide book became the basis of an app - called the London architecture Guide, and one of the Architecture Foundation’s most ambitious projects. earlier this year a range of entries was added by Jones alongside a new generation of authors, and it was on this occasion that we met to talk about the guide book’s legacy and its evolution.
“What matters hugely to me is that architecture has a role to play in public life. That’s what this book is about - to celebrate excellence in architecture, and to be somewhat critical of things we don’t argee with…there should be a debate about architecture in the city” – Edward Jones
Show notes:
Arcades, the history of a building type by Geist, Johann Friedrich (1983)
College City, Colin Rowe (1978)
John Rocque's map of London, Westminster and Southwark (1746)
London The Unique City by Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1934)
Gilbey House, Serge Chermayeff, London, 1937
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