Photo credit: Jef Safi (Flickr)
As the first floor of the library will be refurbished as part of the building project during the summer, the library will have reduced opening hours.


Friday the 25th May will be the last late night till 7pm, thereafter we will be open Mon-Friday 9-5 – reopening with usual hours (24/7) on Monday 24th September.

We will be closed for Bank Holidays on:
Monday 4th June
Tuesday 5th June
Monday 27th August

Building works are due to start from the 1st June, a temporary library counter will be available in the North Area for most of the summer – whilst the new counter is relocated at podium level.

You can arrange for your books to be sent to Cavendish Library by reserving them and choosing Cavendish as collection location in Library Search.

All print journals will be unavailable during this time, however you will be able to access journals at the RIBA library on Portland Place and at other libraries using a Sconul Access card - please contact me to find out more.

The refurbished library will be fully available from Monday 24th September.

Broaden your horizons

Cedric Price

Photo: Anil Bawa-Cavia (joanofarctan) on Flickr a-nc

Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable

Open daily, 10am-7pm until 2nd March

Bartlett School of Architecture, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street London WC1H 0QB

Exhibition website: http://ads.org.uk/ms/access/cedric/index.html

Cedric Price (1934-2003) was an architect who built almost nothing, yet his theories, his teaching, and above all his visions of an alternative society enabled by transient communications technology, have shaped the development of architecture since the 1960s. This exhibition presents Cedric Price’s two most influential schemes of the 1960s. The first is the Fun Palace, a project proposed by Price and radical theatre-director Joan Littlewood as an alternative to the civic theatres, cinemas and recreation centres of the 1950s and 1960s.

The second is Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt, a project which challenged the thinking behind the New Universities which were being built to increase access to higher education in the 1960s. This exhibition puts each of the projects in its historical context, and explains them in Price’s own words and those of his contemporaries.

The exhibition features a series of steel models of the Thinkbelt scheme, as well as film of Price discussing his architecture, and illustrations from his archive in Canada.

The exhibition is curated by Barnabas Calder, University of Strathclyde Department of Architecture, designed by NORD Architects, with graphic design by Graphical House. The exhibition was produced by Architecture + Design Scotland and brought to London by the Bartlett School of Architecture.

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Planning in the USA: policies, issues, and processes (3rd ed.) / Barry Cullingworth and Roger W. Caves


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Urban Data Management Symposium (25th : 2007 : Stuttgart, Germany) Urban and regional data management : UDMS annual 2007 : proceedings of the Urban Data Management Society Symposium 2007 : Stuttgart, Germany, 10-12 October 2007 / editors, Volker Coors ... [et al.]


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Lessons for the Big Society: planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation / by Bryan Fanning, Denis Dillon


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Alcohol, drinking, drunkeness : (dis)orderly spaces / Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine, Sarah L. Holloway


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Multi-owned housing : law, power and practice / edited by Sarah Blandy, Ann Dupuis, Jennifer Dixon


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Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach


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Architecture and revolution : contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Neil Leach


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Architect's drawings : a selection of sketches by world famous architects through history / Kendra Schank Smith

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Twenty buildings every architect should understand / Simon Unwin

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Ethics for the built environment / Peter Fewings

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Building services handbook : incorporating current building & construction regulations (6th ed.) / Fred Hall and Roger Greeno

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Ethics and the built environment / edited by Warwick Fox

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Politics, planning and homes in a world city / Duncan Bowie

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Public places - urban spaces : the dimensions of urban design (2nd ed.) / Mathew Carmona ... [et al.]

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Urban and regional planning (5th ed.) / Peter Hall and Mark Tewdwr-Jones

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Public and private spaces of the city / Ali Madanipour

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Urban planning in Europe : international competition, national systems and planning projects / Peter Newman and Andy Thornley

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Spatial planning and urban development : critical perspectives / Pier Carlo Palermo, Davide Ponzini

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Online research methods in urban and planning studies : design and outcomes / Carlos Nunes Silva [editor]

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Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin

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Monday 20th February                   1-2pm            Library Welcome Area
Tuesday 21st February                  1-2pm            Library Welcome Area
Wednesday 22nd February           1-2pm            Library Welcome Area
Thursday 23rd February                1-2pm            Library Welcome Area
Friday 24th February                      1-2pm           Library Welcome Area

The Library Welcome Area is situated on the first floor of the Library to the right of the Library counter.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all Season's Greetings, hope you have a good break and I look forward to seeing you in 2012!

The library will close tomorrow 24th December at midday and re-open on Tuesday 3rd January.

Postmodernism

I recently visited the Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A which encompassed all the arts including architecture including Charles Jencks's writings and theories on postmodernism.

Displayed as part of the exhibition for the New wave period in the 1980's were copies of the publication Domus which was a important method to deliver news about what was happening at that stage of the movement.  We subscribe to Domus in the library where print copies can be found dating from 1963 to current day so if you are interested in reading more about the movement as it was percieved then why not take a browse of the 1980's range (if you are not sure where/how to locate please let me know).

In relation to this there is also a recent article in The Architectural Review, Vol 1377, November 2011 pgs 112-117 "Reassessing Postmodernism is the movement still relevant 50 years on?" by Colin Fournier - we also subscribe to this journal in print.

Image credit: Em Mires