At Home in London: The Mews House traces seventeen London mews dwellings — from self-built architect residences to boldly experimental new-builds — through new photography and extensive drawings spanning the 1960s to 2023.
About This Book
What began as working infrastructure — stables and coach houses tucked behind Georgian and Victorian terraces — the London mews has evolved into one of the city's most inventive sites for residential architecture. This volume documents seventeen examples of that transformation, from the intimate homes of artists and bohemians who first claimed these alleys for domestic life, to the radically experimental houses architects built for themselves, to recent new-build developments testing the mews as a model for contemporary urban housing. Architecture critic Ellis Woodman narrates this lineage with authority, placing individual projects within a broader argument about domesticity, density, and London's enduring housing crisis. The second in a series on London housing types, it is essential reading for anyone engaged with residential design and the evolving city.
Key Features
- 132 pages of new photography by Matthew Blunderfield and extensive architectural drawings across seventeen case studies
- Text by acclaimed architecture critic Ellis Woodman
- Notable projects include John Winter's self-built house, Ted and Roz Cullinan's residence, Peter St John and Siw Thomas's home, Peter Barber's Edgewood Mews (2022), and Al-Jawad Pike's Chowdhury Walk (2023); early pioneer potter Lucie Rie also featured
- Published by MACK x The Architecture Foundation, 2023
What You'll Discover
- How the mews type shifted from utilitarian service infrastructure to a site of architectural experimentation at the heart of the historic city
- The recurring phenomenon of architects designing and building their own mews homes, and what those self-built houses reveal about ideas of domesticity
- The mews as a serious proposition for new residential development in London, examined through recent monumental examples by Peter Barber and Al-Jawad Pike
- How this apparently modest building type intersects with London's longstanding housing crisis and the broader question of how the city should grow
About the Author
Ellis Woodman is an architecture critic whose writing accompanies seventeen documented mews projects in this volume, tracing the type's history from its earliest residential pioneers through to contemporary new-build examples. Karin Templin is credited as author of the publication. Matthew Blunderfield contributed new photography throughout.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 132
- Dimensions: 290 x 280 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781915743664
- Publisher: MACK x The Architecture Foundation
- Publication Date: 2023
Perfect For: Architects and designers with an interest in residential typology, urban housing, and the domestic interior; historians of London architecture; students examining adaptive reuse and infill development.