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Robin Ward<br />
MAY <strong>2017</strong><br />
Exploring Glasgow<br />
The Architectural Guide<br />
Robin Ward is an<br />
architecture critic, writer<br />
and graphic designer who<br />
was born and raised in<br />
Glasgow. He studied at<br />
Glasgow School of Art<br />
and subsequently worked<br />
for the BBC in London,<br />
and in Canada, where he<br />
was architecture critic for<br />
the Vancouver Sun. He<br />
has written a number of<br />
books, including Some<br />
City Glasgow, The Spirit<br />
of Glasgow, and co-wrote<br />
Exploring Bangkok.<br />
Glasgow is one of the most<br />
architecturally exciting cities in<br />
the world, boasting a huge variety<br />
of building styles. There are grand<br />
Victorian public buildings celebrating<br />
civic progress and pride, commercial<br />
palazzi glorifying trade and industry,<br />
glittering art galleries, a Gothic<br />
Revival university as well as tower<br />
blocks, tenements, the Art Nouveau<br />
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and<br />
the quirky classicism of Alexander<br />
‘Greek’ Thomson.<br />
This book illustrates and describes<br />
almost 500 buildings and structures,<br />
featured not only for their architectural<br />
excellence but also for their social and<br />
historical significance.<br />
Format: 235 x 130mm pbk<br />
ISBN: 9781780274546<br />
Price: £16.99<br />
Extent: 304pp<br />
Illustrations: Colour throughout<br />
May <strong>2017</strong><br />
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