Modern Buildings In Britain

Author : Owen Hatherley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780141998312

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Modern Buildings in Britain by Owen Hatherley Pdf

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work today Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain's history is fiercely contested, and its role in our future is the subject of ongoing controversy - but modernist buildings have undoubtedly changed our cities, politics and identity forever. In Modern Buildings in Britain, Owen Hatherley applauds the ambition and explores the significance of this most divisive of architectures, travelling from Aberystwyth to Aberdeen, from St Ives to Shetland, in search of our most important and distinctive modern buildings. Drawing on hundreds of examples, we learn how the concrete of Brutalism embodies post-war civic principles, how corporate values were expressed in the glass façades of the International Style, and why Ecomodernist experimentation is often consigned to the geographic fringes. As Hatherley considers the social, political and cultural value of these structures - a number of which are threatened by demolition - two linked questions emerge: what happens to a building after it has been lived in, and what becomes of an idea when its time has passed? With more than six hundred pages of trenchantly opinionated, often witty analysis, and with three hundred photographs in duotone and colour, Modern Buildings in Britain is a landmark contribution to the history of British architecture.

Author : Geraint Franklin,Elain Harwood
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849944502

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Post-Modern Buildings in Britain by Geraint Franklin,Elain Harwood Pdf

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style – and its finest examples Post-modernism was the 1980s’ counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began to disappear. Now is the time to reassess its values. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples. Individual entries are beautifully illustrated, many with new photography, including the SIS Building made famous by James Bond, John Outram’s awe-inspiring pumping station in London's Docklands and Judge Institute in Cambridge, and the late works of James Stirling and Michael Wilford, including No.1 Poultry – an extraordinary corner of the City that in 2016 became England’s youngest listed building.

Author : Owen Hatherley
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241238285

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Britain's 1000 Best Modern Buildings by Owen Hatherley Pdf

Author : Geraint Franklin,Elain Harwood
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849944908

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Post-Modern Buildings in Britain by Geraint Franklin,Elain Harwood Pdf

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style – and its finest examples Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began to disappear. Now is the time to reassess its values. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples. Individual entries are beautifully illustrated, many with new photography, including the SIS Building made famous by James Bond, John Outram's awe-inspiring pumping station in London's Docklands and Judge Institute in Cambridge, and the late works of James Stirling and Michael Wilford, including No.1 Poultry – an extraordinary corner of the City that in 2016 became England's youngest listed building.

Author : Elain Harwood
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849946865

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Mid-Century Britain by Elain Harwood Pdf

Leading expert and passionate advocate of modern British architecture Elain Harwood gives the best overview of British architecture from 1938 to 1963 – mid-century buildings. Growing in popularity and with an increasing understanding of their importance as a background to our lives, the buildings range from the Royal Festival Hall, Newcastle City Hall and to Deal Pier and Douglas ferry terminal, from prefabs and ice cream parlours to Coventry Cathedral and the Golden Lane Estate. The author writes in non-technical, layman's language about the design, architecture and also the influence of these buildings on the lives of our towns and cities. The author has arranged the huge variety of buildings into: Houses and Flats: Churches and Public Buildings; Offices; Shops; Showrooms and Cafes; Hotels and Public Houses; Cinemas, Theatres and Concert Halls; Industrial Buildings and Transport. There is an insightful introduction that places these buildings in the context of 20th-century architecture generally and globally. All fantastically photographed to make this a must have for anyone interested in our built heritage. Postwar Britain architects often saw architecture as a powerful means to improve the quality of our lives after the shadow of war. This is the fascinating story of what they built to meet that challenge. Cover illustration by Paul Catherall

Author : Alan Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060873703

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Modern by Alan Powers Pdf

Encyclopedic in scope and structure, this comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, together with specially commissioned photographs of all the major extant buildings.

Author : Susannah Charlton,Elain Harwood,Alan Powers
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030152093

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British Modern by Susannah Charlton,Elain Harwood,Alan Powers Pdf

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Author : Alan Powers
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861892810

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Britain by Alan Powers Pdf

Thoroughly illustrated with images of the buildings under discussion, advertisements, and other historical photographs, Britain is an authoritative, yet highly accessible, account of twentieth-century British architecture.

Author : Nicholas Bullock
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 041522179X

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Building the Post-war World by Nicholas Bullock Pdf

Building the Post-War World offers for the first time an overall account of Modern Architecture in the decade after the Second World War.

Author : Anthony Jackson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781487590482

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The Politics of Architecture by Anthony Jackson Pdf

The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints. The battle is by no means over; indeed it is spreading to wider issues and outside what was previously a largely professional sphere. A book like this one, which spells out the issues and describes how they arose, is therefore of interest not only to architects and students of architecture but to the growing general public concerned about the man-made environment. Professor Jackson looks at the buildings of the period as the products of peculiar sets of circumstances, as works of art and in terms of what their designers were trying to achieve. And since there is much worth studying in the critical zone that separates architectural claims and hopes from social and aesthetic reality, this book offers both essential background material and a fascinating narrative that will in itself be a subject of controversy.

Author : Robert Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317170853

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Building the Modern Church by Robert Proctor Pdf

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts. A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building’s social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:49015001191494

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Modern Architecture in England by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Henry-Russell Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Justin Beal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262367189

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Sandfuture by Justin Beal Pdf

An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.

Author : Keith Hasted
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785006203

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Modernist Architecture by Keith Hasted Pdf

Modernist architecture in Britain brought honesty to the structure of buildings and clean lines free of historical ornament to the style, establishing new ideas on how people could live and work. Where did this architecture come from? And who were the British and emigre architects creating Modernism in the UK? This book tells the story of Modernist architecture, from nineteenth-century Chicago to post-war Britain, concluding with a look at the continuing evolution of architectural style, from Post-Modern to the work of Zaha Hadid. Supported by over 150 photographs of buildings and design features from around the world, coverage includes: new methods from Chicago in the 1890s, opening up building options for Modernist architects in the new century; Frank Lloyd Wright and development of the Prairie Style; how Modernist architecture evolved in Britain; the progress of European Modernist architecture; the significance and far-reaching influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and finally, post-war development in Britain.

Author : Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469626833

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Building the British Atlantic World by Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.