{"id":2793,"date":"2016-09-08T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2016-09-08T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:37:18","slug":"architectural-maps-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/architectural-maps-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural Maps of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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London-based publisher Blue Crow Media<\/a> has begun issuing a series of cartographic guides to urban architecture.\u00a0They sent me samples of their first two maps, the Art Deco London Map<\/a> and the Brutalist London Map<\/a>. (A bilingual\u00a0Constructivist Moscow Map<\/a>\u00a0came out this week, and a Brutalist Washington Map is coming in October.)<\/p>\n

Each is a\u00a0folded paper map of London, 42 \u00d7 60 cm in size, that highlights more than 50 examples of\u00a0Art Deco<\/a> or Brutalist<\/a> architecture, respectively, found in that city.\u00a0On the\u00a0front side\u00a0is\u00a0the map itself, where the architectural examples, highlighted in red, pop out against an extremely spare base layer that has no text except for parks and Tube stations; streets are unlabelled. The end result is dramatic and clear\u2014the grey-on-black Art Deco map\u00a0is particularly striking\u2014but presupposes\u00a0a familiarity with the landscape (or a smartphone); these maps really can’t be used on their own to find things. They’d look awfully good\u00a0on a wall, though.\u00a0These are simple, well-designed maps that make a virtue of\u00a0simplicity. They cost \u00a38 each (or two for \u00a314.50<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London-based publisher Blue Crow Media has begun issuing a series of cartographic guides to urban architecture.\u00a0They sent me samples of their first two maps, the Art Deco London Map and the Brutalist London Map. 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