Portsmouth; with contributions from Peter Hollins and Geoffrey Broadbent

by Alan Balfour, Peter Hollins (Contributor), Geoffrey Broadbent (Contributor)

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Alan Balfour (b. 1939) is a Scottish architect and author. He attended the Royal High School and Edinburgh College of Art. He won the Edinburgh Corporation Medal for Civic Design in 1961 and attended Princeton University as a Fulbright Scholar. He an Emiritus Professor of Architecture and has lived in America for more than forty years.

His books include New York (2001) and Shanghai (2002), in the World Cities series published by Wiley/Academy, London. They offer critical histories of city character and form as defined by architecture. The first in the series, Berlin, published by Academy Editions in 1995, documents the transformation of Berlin before and after the bringing down of the Wall. This and his earlier Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737 - 1989 (Rizzoli, 1990), received AIA International Book Awards. Other ooks include Portsmouth (Studio Vista, 1970), Rockefeller Centre: Architecture as Theater (McGraw-Hill, 1978).

Balfour was e;ected Chairman of the Architectural Association in London in 1991. He was Dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and was the 2000 Topaz Laureate, the highest recognition given in North America to an academic in architecture.