Terry Farrell Books

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
Featured here are the London-based urban design projects of Terry Farrell. Each chapter presents a series of recent projects which have in common an indentifiable urban design theme, with an accompanying text detailing its history and urban context.
SYNOPSIS:
For Terry Farrell urban design should be based on a number of principles: a notion of continuum with the history and traditions of a specific area, a priority given to the pedestrian and the experience of the street and a desire to create new places with an identity to encourage the return of the diversity of traditional urban life. Each chapter of this illustrated book presents a series of recent projects which have in common an identifiable urban design theme with an accompanying text detailing its history and urban context. They include the City and Cheapside (with the Paternoster masterplan), the Barbican and London Wall, the River Thames, market halls, railway stations (including Charing Cross), large public institutions (the South Bank), London's natural landscape, parks, squares and open spaces, the private world and outer villages.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 6
Ken Powell
CHAPTER ONE
THE CITY/CHEAPSIDE 12
Mansion House and Poultry 18
City of London 1984-1987
Paternoster Area, St. Paul's 24
City of London 1989-1992
CHAPTER TWO
THE CITY/LONDON WALL 34
Alban Gate 40
City of London 1986-1992
Moor House 50
City of London 1986-1991
CHAPTER THREE
THE RIVER THAMES 54
Vauxhall Cross 60
London Borough of Lambeth 1982-1992
East Greenwich 72
London Borough of Greenwich 1988
Brentford Dock 76
London Borough of Hounslow 1988
Hungerford Bridge 80
City of Westminster and London Borough of Lambeth
CHAPTER FOUR
MARKET HALLS 84
Tobacco Dock 92
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1985-1990
Spitalfields Market 100
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1991
CHAPTER FIVE
RAILWAY STATIONS AND RAILWAY LAND 106
Charing Cross 112
City of Westminster 1985-1990
King's Cross Railway Lands 126
London Boroughs of Camden and Islington 1987
CHAPTER SIX
LARGE INSTITUTIONS 134
South Bank Arts Centre 140
London Borough of Lambeth 1984-1992
Bloomsbury Hospitals 148
City of Westminster and London Borough of Camden 1988
CHAPTER SEVEN
GREEN LONDON: PARKS, SQUARES, GARDENS 154
Comyn Ching Triangle 160
London Borough of Camden 1978-1985
St John's Gardens 168
City of Westminster 1991-1992
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE PRIVATE WORLD 174
Crafts Council Gallery 178
City of Westminster 1980-1981
Lloyds Bank, Pall Mall 182
City of Westminster 1989-199 1
Carlton Gardens 190
City of Westminster 1988
Lombard Street 196
City of London 1991-1992
CHAPTER NINE
OUTER VILLAGES 204
Wimbledon Town Centre 210
London Borough of Merton 1987-1988
Chiswick Park 214
London Borough of Hounslow 1989-1992
CHAPTER TEN
LEARNING FROM LONDON 224
Masterplan and New Conference/Exhibition Centre 244
Lothian Road, Edinburgh 1989-1992
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 256
Brindleyplace, Birmingham 1990-1992
Mixed Use Renovation and Redevelopment Scheme 266
Grey Street, Newcastle 1991-1992
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 270
Quayside, Newcastle 1991-1992
Airport Staff and Administration Centre 274
Frankfurt Airport, Germany 1989
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 278
Quarry Hill, Leeds 1989-1992
Consulate and British Council Offices 288
Hong Kong 1992-
LIST OF BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 298
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 300

I used this book in a unit teaching on fractured fairy tales. I had my students follow the story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs. They loved the trial as depicted in this story. It certainly helped free up their minds to write their own alternative ending to the trial. I highly recommend this book for any teacher trying to teach a creative writing lesson

First & foremost, let me state that I dislike Post-Modernism as an orthodox style. That said, this book in an interesting walk through both the design process as a whole (sketch to model to house) and the thought patterns of Post-Modernism. Not really for the casual reader. Good illustrations; good text. The title should read "How WE Designed A House".