Alan Powers

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Alan Powers


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Alan Powers is a teacher, researcher and writer specialising in architecture and design.

Powers trained as an art historian at University of Cambridge, gaining an undergraduate degree and a PhD.

As a writer Powers has been prolific, writing reviews, magazine articles, obituaries of artists and architects as well as books. He has concentrated on 20th century British architecture and architectural conservation. He has also written books on the design of book jackets, shop fronts, book collectors, and the artist Eric Ravilious as well as monographs on Serge Chermayeff, and the British firms of Tayler and Green and of Aldington, Graig and Collinge.

Average rating: 3.89 · 768 ratings · 99 reviews · 84 distinct worksSimilar authors
Living With Books

3.80 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions
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Front Cover: Great Book Jac...

3.83 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Children's Book Covers: Gre...

3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Modern: The Modern Movement...

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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Eric Ravilious: Imagined Re...

4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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Apartment: Stylish Solution...

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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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100 Years of Architecture

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Eric Ravilious: Artist and ...

4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Edward Ardizzone: Artist an...

4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bauhaus Goes West: Modern A...

2.78 avg rating — 9 ratings3 editions
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“Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.”
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