Edited by Pierre D'Avoine et al.

A book of essays, photographs, drawings and student projects from the work of Unit 14 at the LMU School of Architecture 2015/16. This collective work addresses the Elizabethan courtier house, Soviet architecture as well as student projects reimagining big buildings in London’s suburbia. The essays and research draw on the ‘social condenser’ and its origins in Soviet projects such as the Narkomfin, and the application of these ideas in our understanding of the Tudor Palace, as well as other big buildings such as the palace of Versailles. The research also addresses construction, environment and the relationship between object, space and representation in Elizabethan and Soviet architecture.