Research Catalog

Title

Shaping the city to come : rethinking modern architecture and town planning in England, c1934-51 / Deborah Lewittes.

Author

Lewittes, Deborah

Publication

• Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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 emigre 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 Ernoe 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.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Architecture > England > History > 20th century
• City planning > England > History > 20th century
• Architecture
• City planning
• England

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.

Call Number

JQE 22-699

ISBN

• 9781800856547
• 1800856547

OCLC

1273670344

Author

Lewittes, Deborah, author.

Title

Shaping the city to come : rethinking modern architecture and town planning in England, c1934-51 / Deborah Lewittes.

Publisher

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-287) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781802070774

Research Call Number

JQE 22-699