"Explores twelve figures from the history of British architecture, including Sir John Soane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Cedric Price and Zaha Hadid who have defied convention over the past 250 years. This book offers a fresh take on their work, establishing new and sometimes surprising historical connections, while posing an intriguing alternative narrative to the history of British Architecture." -- Publisher's description

Owen Hopkins, writer, historian, and curator of architecture, is manager of the architecture program at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.