Books by Mark Swenarton

This book explores the roots of the school of thought in German Romanticism; unravels the socialist movement; and traces its continuing role in the twentieth-century architecture; concluding with a critique of its value and validity for the 1990's.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. In place of tower blocks, they created a high-density, low-rise urbanism, based on a return to streets with front doors. This book examinesthis programme and shows how it offers important lessons and insights for the