Architecture York

You live in York UK, youre thinking of paying a visit, or you just like buildings? Then this new work from John Brooke Fieldhouse is a must have! Its a guide book. But its completely different, its not what youd expect from the city of Vikings, Romans, the medieval, the Civil War, the Georgians, and the Victorians. Its about the twentieth century and later right up to 2018. Its buildings public and private - how theyre designed, engineered, lit, heated, ventilated...and not just buildings, there are 130 plus items, including bridges, a flood barrier, details like windows, seating, handrails, landscaping, paving, all the things we touch when we move through a city, the things that make us feel good or bad. Its 260 pages, 360 colour photographs, fifteen pages of indexes and an introduction, consisting of unsentimental and unvarnished answers by the author to over 30 questions on the book and York. Answering questions and always asking more. Its not just the past, its all about the present and the future. We spend most of our lives in buildings, they are art, science, psychology and politics so its essential we all have our own view about them.