November 2022 Issue Jerry White A Tale of Two Cities London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920 By Philip Davies LR
March 2022 Issue Andrew Gailey Don’t Forget the Titians Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution, 1914–23 By Terence Dooley LR
December 2021 Issue William Whyte The Great Wen Riseth London: 1870–1914 – A City at Its Zenith By Andrew Saint LR
July 2021 Issue William Whyte Dreaming in Concrete Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism By Owen Hatherley Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History By Miles Glendinning LR
March 2021 Issue Anthony Paletta Don’t Mention the Woolworth Building Building a New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture By Jean-Louis Cohen Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital By Katherine Zubovich LR
July 2020 Issue Jonathan Meades Lest We Forget Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves By Keith Lowe
June 2020 Issue Jane Ridley Liberal Habitats The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England By Timothy Brittain-Catlin
March 2020 Issue Jonathan Meades State Building Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War By Lukasz Stanek LR
October 2019 Issue Charles Darwent Burning Visions Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright By Paul Hendrickson LR
March 2019 Issue Tobie Mathew Power Failure Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future By Kate Brown LR
March 2019 Issue Christopher Turner A Very Romantic Modernist Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America By Alan Powers
October 2018 Issue John Tusa The Villa’s Tale The Last Palace: Europe’s Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague By Norman Eisen LR
February 2008 Issue David Watkin Design for Living The English House By Hermann Muthesius (Edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Jane Seligman & Stewart Spencer) LR
June 2017 Issue Paul Barker Suburban Legends Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt By John Grindrod LR
May 2017 Issue Miranda Seymour Palazzo Non Finito The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice By Judith Mackrell LR
July 2016 Issue Will Wiles Glass House & Fallingwater Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson By Hugh Howard LR
June 2016 Issue Miranda Seymour How Beautiful They Stand The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars By Adrian Tinniswood
June 2016 Issue Otto Saumarez Smith Fifty Shades of Grey Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism By Barnabas Calder LR
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