• ISBN13: 9780367469030
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: June 12, 2023
• Pages: 232
• Original Price: GBP 22.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 460 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Professional Practice

The book focuses on the UK housing scene but draws on and provides lessons for housing cultures across the globe. Illustrated throughout with case studies, this is the go-to book for anyone who wants to look at housing in a holistic way.

Flora Samuel is Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. She helped set up the new School of Architecture at the University of Reading and is former Head of the University of Sheffield of the University of Sheffield School of Architecture and the first RIBA Vice President for Research. The author of Why Architects Matter (2018) she has spent the last decade researching the positive impact of good design on people. Her interests are now moving to land use and social justice, both key to addressing climate change. She is well known as industry advisor on the social value of the design of housing and places and a strong advocate of social value mapping. She is also known for her unorthodox writings on Le Corbusier, about whom she has published extensively. A mother of three daughters, she is based in Wales.