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Cook's Camden : the making of modern housing

Title
Cook's Camden : the making of modern housing / Mark Swenarton ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton, photography by Tim Crocker and Martin Charles.
Author
Swenarton, Mark
Publication
  • London : Lund Humphries Publ, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Frampton, Kenneth
  • Crocker, Tim
  • Charles, Martin, 1940-2012
Description
327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm
Summary
The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes - which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane - set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time, including Neave Brown, Benson & Forsyth and Peter Tabori, and also commissioned up-and-coming practices such as Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. 00The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context.
Alternative Title
Making of modern housing
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Architecture, Domestic > England > London > History > 20th century
  • Row houses > England > London > History > 20th century
  • Architecture, Domestic
  • Buildings
  • Row houses
  • Camden (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc
  • England > London
  • England > London > Camden
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JQF 18-351
ISBN
  • 9781848222045
  • 1848222041
OCLC
987375452
Author
Swenarton, Mark, author.
Title
Cook's Camden : the making of modern housing / Mark Swenarton ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton, photography by Tim Crocker and Martin Charles.
Publisher
London : Lund Humphries Publ, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Frampton, Kenneth, writer of introduction.
Crocker, Tim, photographer.
Charles, Martin, 1940-2012, photographer.
Research Call Number
JQF 18-351
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