Selected Publications
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture
The book brings together reproductions of 34 drawings made in a sketchbook by Maxwell at Liverpool University in 1944; and his lecture of some fifty years later: 'Functionalism and the Avant Garde'.
Celia Scott 2022
Available from Drawing Matter bookshop.
Autobiography: The Time of my Life, in Architecture
A personal autobiographical journey through the post-war world, including serious essays illustrating the evolution of theoretical thought to the present.
Artifice Books on Architecture, London, 2016.
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James Stirling, Michael Wilford
With texts in both English and German, this book covers the work of Stirling/Wilford in detail up to Stirling’s death in 1992, and shows the continuity
evident in Wilford’s own later work.
Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 1998.
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Pamphlet: The Two Theories of Architecture: text of inaugural lecture
Given as inaugural lecture at University College London,
this lecture emphasizes the role of Architecture as cultural expression.
University College London, 1982.
Ideas, Faces and Places: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless
The book is a record of an exhibition and symposium that took place in Dublin at The Irish Architectural Archive in the autumn of 2022, which transferred to RIBA headquarters in London in the Spring of 2023. Celia Scott, Robert Maxwell and others.
Available from Canalside Press.
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow
This book considers the notion of ‘doubt’ encountered by the modern architect, relating the worlds of architecture, art, literature and music.
Artifice Books on Architecture, London, 2013.
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The Two Way Stretch: Modernism, Tradition and Innovation
This book deals with the contradiction between Architecture as Art, which is expected to be innovative, and its functionality, which means it should provide an expected service.
Polemic Series, Academy Editions, 1996.
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New British Architecture
This was Maxwell’s first book: it contains the seeds of his future thinking.
German text: Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart, 1972
English text: Thames & Hudson, London; Praeger, New York, 1972.
A Few Years of Writing: Interspersed with some Facts of Life
Collects writings from the 1990’s to the 2010’s, including excerpts from his diary over the same period.
Artifice Books on Architecture, London, 2012.
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Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Theory and Criticism in Architecture
Provides the first comprehensive collection of his writings, finding a middle way between high theory and popular criticism. It received a citation from the American Institute of Architects for using language accessible to ordinary people.
Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
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