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 looks at the language of street furniture reflected through the gaze of photography and contemporary culture. It is a book about the elements of the streetscape which can exert an increasing impact on our interaction with the cities we inhabit.
- Format: Hardback
- Size: 24 cm x 17 cm
- Pages: 288
- Illustrations: 284