J. Vale: Picnicking

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or consider the case of the Jerusalem, the greatest site of physical destruction and renewal in history, ...more

The first editionof Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic,winning theprestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Valefully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the ...more