Johnny Rodger: 2 books
The Hero Building
An Architecture of Scottish National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social...
The Spaces of Justice
The Architecture of the Scottish Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
This book looks at the architecture of the courts in Scotland and the importance of these civic spaces. Given the importance of courts to the legal experience it starts by exploring why scholars have been so reticent in examining spaces in which the administration of justice takes place. It notes...