Shaping the City to Come

Rethinking Modern Architecture and Town Planning in England, c. 1934-51

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvDeborah Lewittes

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This study reassesses modern architecture and town planning in mid-twentieth-century England, highlighting ideas and debates that were in circulation as modernist ideals gradually took root. The book reveals an architectural culture that was serious, active, and visionary, with impact that extended into the postwar years. Through close studies of specific works and writings, the author acknowledges the importance of the international context of modern architecture as it intersected with the variety of narratives that defined English modernism, such as national identity, the New Empiricism, and the picturesque, taking into account the large community of émigré architects who settled in England with the approach of World War II, as well as a more general dissemination of international style forms and theories from continental Europe. The book places familiar figures such as Berthold Lubetkin and Ernö Goldfinger, as well as projects such as Tecton’s Penguin Pool and the Festival of Britain’s “Live Architecture” Exhibition, in new light, presenting a rich picture of the modern architectural climate in England. The study draws attention to the debates, proposals, and processes that fed into the development of modernist, urban-minded, and forward-looking architectural ideals.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-01
Mått163 x 239 x 23 mm
Vikt616 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781800856547

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List of FiguresAcknowledgments Preface: The Man in the White Suit: England and the Dissemination of Modern ArchitectureIntroduction: Four Stories: Telling the Tale of Modern English Architecture 1. The Visionary and the Concrete: Spirals and Circles 2. London Underground and Overground: From Subcultures and Subterranea to Subtopia3. Planning London: Wartime Proposals and the Urban Future4. Living in the Urban Future: Britain “on the cusp” and the Live Architecture ExhibitionConclusion: Architecture in the Diaspora: An Alternative FrameworkNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

'With its unique take on the impact of the diasporic displacement of modernist practitioners, Shaping the City to Come makes a delightful contribution to the growing revisionist discourse on the state of modern architectural culture in Britain. In this subtle tale, local conditions responded in important and nuanced ways to the arrival of formative émigré figures and their attendant design ideologies. The text is scholarly in the depth of its meticulous research, as well as accessible in its elegant prose, and will enrich the knowledge of specialists and amateurs alike.' Hadas Steiner, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York