Adventurous Vents
a journey through the ventilation shafts of britain
$62.69
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2025
Summary
Adventurous Vents: A Celebration of Britain’s Hidden Architecture
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. Often unnoticed, these structures are vital for keeping tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks, and energy stations cool and fume-free.
Vents come in a wonderful and inventive variety of forms. This book celebrates them as intriguing individual structures and as an innovative way to tell the story of Britain’s subterranean industrial development from the eigh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241661178 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024166117X |
| Author: | Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens, Suzanna Prizeman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Particular Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 673g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 176mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Lucy Lavers
Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman co-founded the architecture education charity Our Hut through which they deliver inspiring school and community projects focused on the built environment. Their previous book, Inventive Vents- A Gazetteer of London’s Ventilation Shafts, was the legacy of a London-centred project and led to this Britain-wide investigation of ventilation shafts, Adventurous Vents.
In addition to being educators, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman are art historians and Lucy Lavers is a practising architect with Thomson Lavers Architects.
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