On the Street

In-Between Architecture
Edwin Heathcote

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288 pages

A series of 101 essays and personal recollections by Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic at The Financial Times. Illustrated with photographs by Helen Levitt, Brassaï, Vivian Maier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others.

There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it. Benches, bollards, streetlights, signs, barriers, postboxes, phone booths – they are the physical manifestation of public infrastructure, a network of goods between architecture and the body.

On the Street

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