Cafes and Bars - Living in the Public

By Grafe/Bollerey
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 213
Publication Date: 2007-10-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415363276
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415363273
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
The design of bars and cafes has played an important role
in the development of architecture in the twentieth century.
This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the
last 30 years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed
significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across
Europe and North America.
This volume presents and examines this significant urban
architectural production, and discusses it against a background of
the design of cafes and restaurants across the 19th and 20th
centuries. Major themes and developments are discussed and
illustrated with case studies, from the functionalist pre-World
War Two architects in Central Europe representing modernsociety
through the design of public spaces, right up to the design
of sophisticated bars and restaurants as part of the recent urban
renaissance of Barcelona and Paris in 1980s and London in the 90s.

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