Canalside Press

On Continuity: John Spence in Hackney
2023

Patrick Lynch (editor), Rachel Elliott, Andy Groarke et al
Clothbound Hardcover Book
288pp
£30

On Continuity is the fourth book in our Modern Architecture in Reflection series, and it concerns the work in Hackney for The Crown Estate by the somewhat secretive architect John Spence. Spence worked on a series of infill sites throughout the 1960s and '70s, bomb sites situated around the fringes of Victoria Park, London E9. Little is known about the elusive architect: he shunned publicity, whilst devoting himself diligently to building housing for low income workers. Patrick Lynch and Rachel Elliott have engaged in an ongoing act of architectural detection, seeking out the sources of Spence's late-modernist design decisions, and the book presents archival drawings and photography alongside new drawings by Lynch Architects. It also includes essays by the architect Andy Groarke, and other recent and current residents, as well as new photography by Grant Smith and Tara Darby.

Patrick Lynch
Dialogue and Imagination
2023

Dialogue and Imagination brings together a number of conversations between the Patrick Lynch and some other architects, including some of the most interesting thinkers of our age. Participants in these conversations include Rafael Moneo, Peter Zumthor, Joseph Rykwert, Francesco Venezia, Birkin Haward, Tom de Paor, John Meunier, Craig Hamilton, Dalibor Vesely, Kate Mackintosh, and others. These conversations cover wide ground. As dialogues between creative colleagues, questions recur concerning the role of history, drawing and teaching in an architect's life; the influence of literature and painting upon the architectural imagination; as well as the role of certain topics in theology, science and philosophy in imaginative design work. These are discussed with candor, and perhaps an unusual degree of frankness. What emerges, Tom de Paor suggests, is an alternative history of the recent past of modern architecture: a richer, more nuanced, and more honest account than you normally encounter today.

Will Jennings
Past and Future
2022

Past and Future is a collection of essays by the artist, curator and writer Will Jennings, which examines the intense characteristics of buildings, memories and landscapes, contrasting the human world of technology and inhabitation with the geography of Suffolk, Vilnus, London and Rome. Partly a memoir and partly a philosophical meditation on loss, Jenning's writing and art works chart the implicit and explicit connections between ideas, emotions and places.

Part of a City: The Work of Neave Brown Architect
2022

David Porter and Patrick Lynch (editors), Neave Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Catherine Croft, Tony Fretton, Jonathan Sergison, Simon Henley, Stephen Taylor, Paul Karakusevic, et al

Clothbound Hardcover Book
288pp
£30

Produced in the same format & size as On Intricacy, Part of a City is the fourth book in our Modern Architecture in Reflection series. It explores the ethos and ideas of the Anglo-American architect Neave Brown (1929-2018), winner of the RIBA Gold Medal 2017. Produced in concert with Brown's colleague and business partner David Porter, Part of a City gets its title from his Gold Medal acceptance speech, when Brown observed: "We weren't making housing, we were making part of a city." The book brings together his writing and design projects, including his celebrated large-scale urban housing work for Camden Council, and the later projects undertaken in private practise with Porter. Along with the other titles in this series, Part of a City is a portrait of a period of optimism in modern architectural culture; it reveals the profound intellectual and artistic ideas that inspired this communal social effort, and is also a portrait of a gifted and unusually articulate architect - someone who continues to inspire a new generation of architecture students today.

Tom de Paor
Previous, Next
2022

Previous, Next is a long prose poem by the acclaimed architect and teacher Tom de Paor, recounting the first voyage of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and the human species' obsession with space. Part narrative and part description, the text began life as a series of project specifications for a number of public art projects and buildings. Surreal and physical qualities commingle in de Paor's writing, revealing a strangely latent reciprocity between cosmic and human scales of measurement. Previous, Next is the second book in our paperback series Reflection in Action, which is devoted to the poetic and philosophical writings of architects and artists.

Graeme Brooker
50|50 WORDS FOR REUSE – A minifesto
2021

Softco Book

144pp

£12.99

50|50 Words is a collection of language to describe reuse. It is not a taxonomy, a word that stuffs all it encounters, nor is it a hectoring bleat. It is a minifesto; a big shout in small type. Why 50? Well, why not? Each word is an instrument; a contrivance chosen deliberately in order to activate another 50 associations. Words are like buildings. They reflect cultures and embody continuous change.

The revisions of both are comprehended through the processes of reuse. Yet, present lexes do not effectively describe the future of the past. 50|50 is both polemic and a paean. The idiosyncratic poetry of a voice finding its feet. Its claim is to declare a current vocabulary, one that articulates centuries of practice, the unfinished business of words and buildings in unending change.

Change is the Reality: The Work of Robin Walker Architect
2021

Robin Walker, Patrick Lynch and Simon Walker (editors), Elizabeth Hatz, Tom de Paor, Douglas Carson, Niall McLaughlin and Laura Evans

Clothbound Hardcover Book
329pp
£30

Produced in the same format & size as On Intricacy, Change is the Reality is the second book in our Modern Architecture in Reflection series. It explores the ethos and ideas of Irish architect Robin Walker (1924-1991), a partner in the RIBA Gold Medal winning Dublin practice of Scott Tallon Walker. Produced in concert with Walker's son, the architect and teacher Simon Walker, Change is the Reality is an archive of Robin's articles and lectures, presented alongside new and original photographs of a number of his seminal projects, including Bothar Bui, An Bord Failte, UCD restaurant, house at Kinsale, etc. The book also includes essays by Simon Walker and Patrick Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz, Tom de Paor, Douglas Carson and Laura Evans.

Alex Niven, Adam Sharr & Patrick Lynch with photography by Euan Lynn
Newcastle, Endless
2021

Softcover Book

64pp
£12.99

Newcastle, Endless is a collection of lyrics and lyrical reflections upon the endlessly embroiled landscape of the city: it reveals a poetic landscape infused with the effects of topography and technology upon its architecture, language, politics and planning. It is a love poem of sorts, one dedicated to the modernist dream of “the perfect line between the/townhouse and the mephedrone highrise”, and to the myths that lurk still beneath this dream: “the river becomes a symbol of/death it is insurmountable Styx/like the lovers cannot cohere across/it”. In common with Alex Niven’s recent prose concerning the possibilities of “a new form of radical culture beyond the idea of England”, Newcastle, Endless fuses scholarship with meditation, experience with imagination, memory with speculation, inviting us to “pause our vortex for a moment to consider im/possibilities”. A utopia of actual places is revealed in the photographs of Euan Lynn and in the poet’s elliptical observations of a situation where, “here and there/everything is open".

Paul Shepheard
Slogans and Battlecries
2020

Softcover Book

128pp
£9.95

Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very short essays – he thinks of them as poems - Paul Shepheard investigates the flurries of meaning that the slogans invoke. He also looks at the Building Regulations and the Material World; and uncovers an inclusive theory of architecture, implied rather than explicit, residing in the fragments. Slogans and Battlecries is the sixth book by renowned architectural writer and teacher Paul Shepheard, and continues his witty and eclectic investigations into the relationships between everyday life, the human imagination, and the natural world. Slogans and Battlecries is the first book in our paperback series Reflection in Action, which is devoted to the poetic and philosophical writings of architects and artists.

On Intricacy: The Work of John Munier Architect

On Intricacy: The Work of John Meunier Architect
2020

John Meunier, Simon Henley Patrick Lynch (editor)
Clothbound Hardcover Book
288pp
£25

On Intricacy is the first book in our Modern Architecture in Reflection series. It is perhaps unusual in that it’s not a monograph, nor is it a hagiography. John Meunier is still alive. On Intricacy celebrates and proselytises the ideas that John has articulated throughout his career. On Intricacy is not a book about him as such, nor simply a book by him, but a book with him, and it reflects his life’s work as an architect and teacher, in the UK and USA. On Intricacy continues conversations between John Meunier and Patrick Lynch that first appeared in Issue 2 of the Journal of Civic Architecture. It also includes essays by Meunier, Lynch and the architect Simon Henley, as well as new photography of the Meunier House at Cambridge by David Grandorge.

Still Beautiful
2018

David Grandorge, Paul Shepheard, David Campany and Patrick Lynch (editor)

Hardcover Book

158pp

£35

David Grandorge’s work is a type of Reconnaissance. In his photographs of cities, architecture appears as part of a network of reciprocal situations. His landscapes evoke a sense of balanced disequilibrium, of great energy and stillness. Natural and man-made aspects of reality seem to occur simultaneously, almost casually, as if discovered by the photographer in a state of un-selfconscious innocence.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 8
December 2021

Contributors to issue 8 include Aaron Peters and Stuart Vokes, Lasse Erkola, Simon Pendal, Fabio Vericat, Cathy Hawley and Hugh Strange, Christophe Van Gerreway, Francesca Torzo, Anne Whidden, Anna Sofia Hartmann, Missouri Williams and Alex Niven.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 7
May 2021

Contributors to issue 7 include Tony Fretton, Sue Barr and Farbrizio Ballabio, Hannibal Wasser, Giles Reid, Luigi Snozzi and Liam Dewar, Matthew Jones, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Marina Engel, John Merrick, Pandora Vaughn, Charles Holland, Hans Munthe-Kaas and Jesse Hager.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 6
November 2020

Contributors to issue 6 of the JoCA include Graig Hamilton, Caroline Voet, Shahed Saleem, Grant Smith, Anthony Coleman, Roz Barr, Peter Carolin, Fulvio Orsenigo, Lars Ridderstedt, Richard Irvine, Oscar Mather, Trevor Garnham, Gianni Nottariani and Eleanor Hooker.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 5
June 2020

Contributors to issue 5 of the JoCA include Birkin Haward, Ellis Woodman, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Dennis Goodwin, Fulvio Orsenigo, Mark Durden and Joao Leal, William Tozer, Jacques Lucan, Patrick Lynch, Matthew Wells, Thaddeus Zupancic, John Meunier, Vittorio Greggotti, Tom de Paor, Rut Blees Luxemburg and Alex Niven.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 4
December 2019

Contributors to issue 4 of the JoCA include Peter Carl, Michael Higgins, Tim Waterman and Will Jennings, the architects Kate Macintosh, Paulo Moreira and Stephen Taylor, photographers Peter Finnemore and Jack Orton, and poet Sarah Arvio.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 3
June 2019

Contributors to issue 3 of the JoCA include the architects Francesco Venezia, Alun Jones, David Evans and Peter Youthed, novelist Tom McCarthy, artist Eva Stenram, architectural historian Nick Temple and poet Emily Hasler.

Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 2
December 2018

Contributors to the second issue include John Meunier, Simon Henley, Will Jennings, Rut Blees-Luxemburg, Herman Bauer (translated by Claudia Lynch), Luis Fernandez-Galiano Ruiz, Patrick Lynch, David Grandorge and Stephen DP Richardson.

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Journal of Civic Architecture, Issue 1
June 2018

Contributors to the first edition include Tom de Paor, Johan Celsing, Joseph Rykwert, Laura Evans, Luisa Collina, Cino Zucchi, Indra Kagis McEwen, Andrew Crompton, Michael Badu, Geraldine Clarkson and Simon Walker.