Michael Spens

The garden of Shute in Wiltshire is a seminal landscape garden revealing a unique working relationship between the architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and his client, Michael Tree. This book reveals how, through the relationship of Jellicoe and Tree, many ideas behind projects in America were born.

Jellicoe at Shute

Alvar Aalto

This volume is part of a series that features single buildings of historical significance. The Viipuri Library passed through three stages of design development before completion, and as a winning project was a major coup for Aalto. It also marked his transition from classicism to modernism.

Michael Spens

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