Riverine ─ Architecture and Rivers

Focusing on human settlements whose origins depend upon rivers, this book asks, what may be identified as common cultural traits to such settlements? It explores the relationship between architecture and rivers at a number of scales, from the geographical/topographical, through the urban/infrastructural, down to that of the individual building or space. Including contributions from an international range of scholars, it examines the interface between terrain and water through the techniques and cultures of landscape, urban, architectural and material history and design, and through cross-cultural studies in art, literature, and social and cultural history. Deliberately wide-ranging, the book provides a specific focus on the architecture of the river, understood in its widest sense. Includes 100 black and white images.

Gerald Adler is the Deputy Head of School at the Kent School of Architecture at the University of Kent, UK. He teaches both in the studio, where he runs the final design project of the degree programme, and in the lecture theatre and seminar room, convening modules in Cultural Context. He is engaged professionally with architecture, working as an Architects Registration Board Lead Examiner and is involved in validating European schools of architecture.

Manolo Guerci studied architecture at the universities of Roma Tre and U.C.L.; trained and worked on the restoration of historic buildings in France within the cadre of the Monuments Historiques; and subsequently did an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge, where he has also taught from 2005 to 2010. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Research Fellow and Graduate Tutor at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 2009 to 2010.