Adventurous Vents
A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain
- Published: 2 October 2025
- ISBN: 9781802064087
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
I’ve been wondering whether this book is for existing lovers of ventilation shafts or is more like proshaft propaganda for the indifferent/ignorant. But these huge, polished-steel vents in brooding oranges and blues would surely appeal to both
Seb Emina, Fantastic Man Magazine
Richly textured and revealing... The examples gathered in Adventurous Vents are astoundingly varied in appearance and attitude to function... a book that is widely sourced, well curated and full of interest
Will Wiles, Literary Review
Adventurous Vents revels in an obscure design typology, revealing the marginal as central. This celebration of vents and their awkward disguises and blunt exposures is also a celebration of architecture’s double life, its ever-unresolved tension between the profane and the transcendent
Sam Jacob, ArtReview
Allow me to vent my enthusiasm for the oddest book of the year... I never thought anyone would compile a book of ventilation shafts but I’m very glad that they have. A lot of other British vent fans must share my delight
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph