This August, Thames & Hudson will be publishing Making Architecture: The work of John McAslan + Partners.
Making Architecture both provides an up-to-date account of the work of John McAslan + Partners – one of Britain’s most respected and dynamic architectural practices – and analyses the culture of a studio that has made a remarkable contribution to architecture, place-making and the lives of individuals for four decades.
A series of thematic chapters includes detailed, fully illustrated descriptions of numerous recent and ongoing international projects, from Central and Waterloo stations in Sydney to the transformation of King’s Cross station in London; and from the sensitive repair and renewal of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, the Roundhouse, London, and most recently The Burrell Collection in Glasgow, to the new Msheireb Mosque and nearby Msheireb Museums in Qatar.
The book also includes the pioneering initiatives for which the McAslan studio has become renowned, and which underline the practice’s humanity and sense of social responsibility: the urgent rebuilding of the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the devastating earthquake in 2010; the N17 project, which provided an innovative pop-up apprenticeship design studio in Tottenham, north London; and the ongoing Hidden Homeless initiative.
Edited by Chris Foges, with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, an introduction by Alan Powers and contributions from architectural specialists, this well designed monograph offers the key to understanding the development and philosophy of one of the world’s most socially engaged architectural practices.