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| 720.941 THU The building of England : how the history of England has shaped our buildings | 720.941 WAT The buildings of Britain: Regency; a guide and gazatteer | 720.9410904 HAT Modern buildings in Britain : a gazetteer | 720.94109044 HOP Lost futures : the disappearing architecture of post-war Britain | 720.94109045 CAL Raw concrete : the beauty of brutalism | 720.94109045 PHI Brutal outer London / | 720.94109046 HAR Brutalist Britain |
9781910350621
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rebuilding Britain after World War II and through the post-austerity decades of the 1960s and 1970s enabled architecture to embody a vision of a better future - both social and technological. The work of such practitioners as Erno Goldfinger, James Stirling, Alison and Peter Smithson, Team 4, Ahrends, Burton & Karolek and Lyons, Israel & Ellis, on many types of building across the country, was captured by equally radical photographers, providing a record of a time when a belief in progress underlay innovation in design. The book documents thirty-five buildings dating from 1945 to 1979, all of them significant both architecturally and through the ideas they represented. Most have been either demolished or fundamentally altered: the rest face imminent demolition or alteration. Owen Hopkins examines the complex social, economic, political and cultural contexts in which they were built and in which their eventual destruction could be seen as inevitable and even welcome.
2022
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