Re-Forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity Before Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9780415334082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str.

Elizabeth Darling

Opis

With unprecedented depth in this important subject, this book examines architectural modernism in Britain through the 1930s not only as an architectural ideology but as part of a wider modernist movement engaging with other expressive media and with political and social progress. Bringing previously overlooked material to the fore, this study fills a gap in the history of architecture and demonstrates how architects in the late 1920s onwards sought to establish modernism as the dominant force in British architectural culture. With it unique focus on a time at which architectural modernism began its rise to hegemony in the UK, this book considers a range of buildings as a reflection of the modernist influence on the reconstruction of Britain.

Spis treści

Introduction: Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction  Part 1: A New Spirit  1. The Conditions for an Architecture for To-Day  Part 2: Rhetorical Modernism  2. A New Landscape of Health  3. Modern Dwellings for Modern Needs  4. New Homes for Old  5. The Modern Flat  Part 3: Towards a New Britain  6. A Living Contemporary Architecture

O autorze

Elizabeth Darling trained as an art and architectural historian at University College London. Since then she has taught, researched and published in the history of 19^th and 20^th century architecture. She is now a Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University.