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Discovering London's Buildings

The book builds on research carried out over many years on London, most notably on Greenwich, on which Bold is the internationally acknowledged expert. It is based on deep and ground-breaking archival research as well as long experience and familiarity with the architecture of London as a whole, and Greenwich in particular. Discovering London's Buildings takes an historical and thematic approach to London's building types: houses, flats, commercial, governmental and so on. It includes twelve walks discussing significant buildings in the City, Westminster, South Bank, Greenwich etc. The book takes an innovative approach in questioning how we see London, through depictions and through walking through it. A key aspect of the book has been further developed in an important journal article on Bird's-Eye views, which looks at the history of panoramic views of the capital ('Bird's-Eye Views: From Hollar to the London Eye'. Aerial Views of Metropolitan London, special issue of The London Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, November 2010, pp. 225-35. ISSN: 0305-8034). The author's long-standing connection with Greenwich, which led to a major monograph in 2000, is further acknowledged in the book through a detailed walking itinerary and has continued with the publication of an essay prepared for a major exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum, in which Bold considers the ways in which the site, and the related river, have been experienced and depicted since the seventeenth century ('The Later History of Greenwich: A River Landscape and Architectural Statement.' In S. Doran (ed.) Royal River - Power, Pageantry and the Thames, pp. 114-20. London, Scala and Royal Museums Greenwich, 2012. ISBN 9781857597004).