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Scotland in 100 Buildings, 9781804251737
Land of Stone, 9781804250167
About Scotland in 100 Buildings:
Scotland in 100 Buildings by architect Roger Emmerson is a captivating journey through the architectural marvels of Scotland, seen uniquely through Emmerson’s personal experiences.
This isn’t a dry history or textbook – it’s a lively, intimate account where each building tells its own story. Emmerson has visited every site featured, offering first-hand insights that bring these places to life, from iconic landmarks to hidden gems. His reflections aim to inspire readers to explore for themselves, rather than simply inform, making this book easy to pick up at any page.
Ideal for architecture enthusiasts, travellers and locals alike, Scotland in 100 Buildings will appeal to anyone curious about Scotland’s diverse buildings and the personal tales they inspire. It’s perfect for those seeking an approachable and authentic look at Scotland’s architectural legacy.
About Land of Stone:
Shortlisted in the Monographs category in the Architectural Book Awards 2023
Wry humour, acute poetics, first-hand experience and deep knowledge of the field…Welcome to a journey of remarkable buildings and remarkable thoughts about these buildings, shaped as they are by deep time, modern ideas and Scottish culture. Readers are sure to see new vistas in the land of stone open before them. - From the Foreword by PROFESSOR Andrew Patrizio
What makes Scottish architecture Scottish?
What ideas drive Scottish architecture?
What has modern architecture in Scotland meant to the Scots?
Ever since the ‘granny-tops’, rattling and clanking in the wind to draw smoke up the tenemental flues from open coal fires, caught his attention as a three-year-old, architecture and its many parts, purposes, processes and procedures has fascinated Roger Emmerson. For him, architecture has always had profound significance.
In Land of Stone he seeks to disengage widely-held conceptions of what a Scottish architecture superficially looks like and to focus on the ideas and events – philosophical, political, practical and personal – that inspired architects and their clients to create the cities, towns, villages and buildings we cherish today.
Reviews:
I am overwhelmed by the outstanding range of your scholarship, plus your unremitting polemic...In any event, the book is an exceptional achievement by any standards… perhaps it is more than one single study, but rather a compressed work of a lifetime! KENNETH FRAMPTON, architect
This densely researched and lucidly written book is an important contribution to the history of Scottish culture in general and architecture in particular. BILL HARE
About the Author:
ROGER EMMERSON was born in Edinburgh. He has worked in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, running his own practice, ARCHImedia, from 1987 to 1999 while concurrently teaching architectural design at Edinburgh College of Art and as a visiting lecturer at universities in Venice, Lisbon, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berkeley. Since 2000 he has worked extensively in architectural conservation, housing, education and the leisure industries throughout the UK, retiring from architectural practice, although not architecture, in 2016.