Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light. Bringing hitherto little considered protagonists and projects to the fore, it argues that rather than being an imported idiom, the new architecture in Britain formed part of an ongoing attempt to make a modern nation.
Spanning the period 1925-42, the book focuses on the key sites from and through which architectural modernism emerged in the UK. Part one considers the main arena in which a will to modernize Britain developed in the 1920s. In parts two...
Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light. Bringing hitherto lit...
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...
With unprecedented depth in this important subject, this book examines architectural modernism in Britain through the 1930s not only as an architectur...
