Right Angle Publishing is the book-publishing sister company to Architecture Today, producing high-quality books on contemporary architecture and urbanism.

Titles to date include :
• DIXON JONES: BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1959-2002
• BRINDLEY PLACE: A MODEL FOR URBAN REGENERATION
• TERRY FARRELL SKETCHBOOK 12-05-98

Future titles in the monograph series include ALLIES & MORRISON and VAN HEYNINGEN & HAWARD. For further details fax 44 (0) 20 7837 0155.

Please send all trade orders to: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN, England. Tel: 44 (0)20 8986 4854. Fax: 44 (0)20 8533 5821; email: orders@centralbooks.com

Dixon Jones – Buildings and Projects 1959-2002 Edited by Ian Latham and Mark Swenarton With essays by Alan Colquhoun, Robert Maxwell, Kenneth Powell, Jeremy Isaacs and Charles Saumarez Smith 224 pages, approx 800 photographs and drawings (mostly in colour) Hard cover £35 2002 ISBN 0 9532848 2 4 "A beautifully crafted example of how to present architecture in print.... The architecture dominates the book and its presentation is exemplary – a perfect primer for students. The drawings and photographs are elegant and varied, while the accompanying texts provide unusually lucid accounts of the architectural intentions" – The Architect’s Journal "This beautifully produced monograph is a fascinating study" – Country Life This is the first book on two of the most eminent British architects of today, Edward Jones and Sir Jeremy Dixon. With distinguished careers spanning four decades, their works separately and, since 1989, in partnership range from the Royal Opera House in London to Mississauga City Hall in Canada and from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds to the Business School for Oxford University. Although they have built throughout the UK, it is to London above all that Dixon Jones have devoted their energies – and it is on London that they have made the greatest impact. Some of the capital’s most important public buildings – the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery, the courtyard of Somerset House – have been given a new life by their deft interventions, transforming what were previously somewhat austere institutions into vital and valued components of the public realm. In this definitive publication, the buildings and projects of Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, from their student days to the present, are fully documented with drawings, photographs and essays by critics and clients, as well as comments by the architects. Alan Colquhoun, Robert Maxwell and Kenneth Powell provide an in-depth critical interpretation while Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Charles Saumarez Smith – clients for the Royal Opera House and National Portrait Gallery respectively – offer a unique insight into the process of working with Dixon Jones. Ian Latham and Mark Swenarton are the publishing editors of Architecture Today magazine, which they set up in 1989. Ian Latham is author of Joseph Maria Olbrich. Mark Swenarton is author of Homes fit for Heroes, and Artisans and Architects. Back to top

Brindleyplace – a model for urban regeneration Edited by Ian Latham and Mark Swenarton 112 pages, 150 photographs and drawings (mostly in colour) Soft cover £20 1999 ISBN 0 9532848 1 6 How are the centres of our major cities to be regenerated? With the attention of public and politicians focusing on this issue, this book explores how one city in the UK has created a model of mixed-use inner-city regeneration. Located close to Birmingham's city centre on a 'brownfield' site formerly occupied by factories and wharfs, Brindleyplace has been turned in five years into a dazzling array of public squares, offices, housing, cafes and restaurants and cultural facilities, including a theatre and art gallery. The book explains how this transformation was achieved and sets out its lessons for other cities worldwide. It explores the full story of Brindleyplace – from the early history of the site in the Industrial Revolution, the land acquisition that made it possible, the development of the masterplan, the design of the individual buildings and public spaces and the pioneering 'partnering' system adopted for their construction. As well as essays by leading academics the book includes contributions from those directly involved – architects, masterplanners, engineers and contractors as well as developers Argent. Architects featured include Allies & Morrison, Edward Cullinan, Terry Farrell, Piers Gough, Norman Foster, Lifschutz Davidson, Demetri Porphyrios, Stanton Williams and Julyan Wickham. Contributors include Prof David Dunster (Liverpool University), Prof Patsy Healey (Centre for Research in European Urban Environments, University of Newcastle) and Joe Holyoak (Birmingham School of Architecture). The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in cities, architecture and construction – including planners and policy-makers, architects, developers, contractors, surveyors and engineers. Back to top

Terry Farrell & Partners – Sketchbook 12-05-98 With essays by Robert Maxwell and Terry Farrell 96 pages, 175 colour and 75 b/w illustrations Soft cover £14.50 1998 ISBN 0 9532848 0 8 Sketchbook 12-05-98 uses drawings, sketches and computer images to capture a moment in the life of one of the world’s busiest – and most creative – architectural offices. For three decades a leading figure in UK architecture, Sir Terry Farrell today enjoys a worldwide reputation, with major architectural and urban design projects in the UK and Asia. Best known for his exuberant London buildings of the 1980s – notably TV-am, Embankment Place at Charing Cross and the MI6 building – Farrell has now moved into a freely expressive mode of design, with the emphasis on sensuous forms and accessible imagery, influenced by working much more overseas. This snapshot of current work comprises evocative drawings, models and collages, ranging from first concepts through exploratory investigations to presentation images. By showing the way in which ideas are elaborated, explored and developed, it offers a unique insight into the creative processes of the architect. In a trenchant personal essay, Terry Farrell sets out his artistic credo, presenting the city as man's greatest work of art and attacking the cult of the minimal. In a foreword Professor Robert Maxwell of Princeton University appraises and applauds Farrell's special contribution to the art of making cities. Projects featured include the National Aquarium, London; Dean Centre, Edinburgh; Maritime Square, Singapore; International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne; Kowloon ventilation building, Hong Kong; Castlegate, York; Sheraton Health Club, Edinburgh; Blue Circle, Kent; and Integrated Transportation Centre, Seoul. Back to top