CONTENTS Preface 6 INTRODUCTION Eleanor Cawne and Michael Snodin 8 St Paul's Cathedral Charles Hind 12 New York City Eleanor Cawne 18 1. BUILDING FOR FUNCTION Michael Snodin 22 Sustainable architecture David Lloyd Jones 34 Traditional and modern houses Helen Thomas 44 2. THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE Michael Snodin 62 Buildings with meaning Michael Snodin 70 Style and front doors Tanishka Kachru 100 3. CREATING BUILDINGS Eleanor Cawne 106 Spanning space Rob Wilson 112 Changing tools of the design process Nell Bingham 142 4. BUILDINGS TOGETHER Eleanor Gawne 146 The planned and unplanned: from settlements to cities Rob Wilson 150 Trafalgar Square: creating the nation's square Gareth Williams 170 Picture credits 181 Notes on contributors 181 Timeline 182 Further reading 186 Index 188