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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2018
Ideal homes, 1918–39
Domestic design and suburban Modernism
by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman
This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design and social and cultural history, as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2018
Ideal homes, 1918–39
Domestic design and suburban Modernism
by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman
This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design and social and cultural history, as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018
Reconstructing modernity
Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities
by James Greenhalgh
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018
Reconstructing modernity
Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities
by James Greenhalgh
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsNovember 2003
Designs on modernity
Exhibiting the city in 1920s Paris
by Tag Gronberg
Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the 19th century". At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on show. This text focuses on the Exhibition as a set of contesting representations of the modern city, stressing the importance of consumption and display for concepts of urban modernity. Here Le Corbusier's "Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau" with its "Plan Voisin" for the redesign of Paris confronted another equally up-to-date city - Paris "a woman's city", world centre of fashion and shopping. Taking as her starting point one of the most dramatic 1925 exhibits, the Rue des Boutiques which spanned the river Seine, the author analyzes the contemporary significance of the small Parisian luxury shop. She demonstrates how boutiques, conceived both as urbanism and as advertising, redefined Paris as the modern city. ;
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsMay 2017
Modernism and the making of the Soviet New Man
by Tijana Vujosevic
The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers. What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the "new man", the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2018
Ideal homes, 1918–39
Domestic design and suburban Modernism
by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman
This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of interwar homes then and now. It argues that these 'ideal' homes combine nostalgia for the past and longing for the future resulting in a new specifically suburban modernism.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2018
Ideal homes, 1918–39
Domestic design and suburban Modernism
by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman
This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018
Reconstructing modernity
Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities
by James Greenhalgh
Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in twentieth century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and govern lived spaces- shopping centers, housing estates, parks, schools and homes - and shows how and why they succeeded or failed. It demonstrates how the material space of the city and how people used and experienced it was crucial in understanding historical change in urban contexts. The book is aimed at those interested in urban modernism, the use of space in town planning, the urban histories of post-war Britain and of social housing.
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Trusted PartnerGeography & the EnvironmentDecember 2018
Architectures of survival
Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52
by Adam Page
Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJune 2018
Building reputations
Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830
by Conor Lucey, Bill Sherman
Taking a cue from a burgeoning revisionist scholarship devoted to early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, subsequent chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJune 2018
Building reputations
Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830
by Conor Lucey, Bill Sherman
Taking a cue from a burgeoning revisionist scholarship devoted to early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, subsequent chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
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Trusted PartnerGeography & the EnvironmentDecember 2018
Architectures of survival
Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52
by Adam Page
Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.
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Trusted PartnerGeography & the EnvironmentDecember 2018
Architectures of survival
Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52
by Adam Page
Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsJune 2018
Building reputations
Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830
by Conor Lucey, Bill Sherman
Taking a cue from a burgeoning revisionist scholarship devoted to early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, subsequent chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsNovember 2018
Modernism and the making of the Soviet New Man
by Tijana Vujosevic
The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers. What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the "new man", the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsNovember 2022
No more giants
J. M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review
by Jessica Kelly, Sally-Anne Huxtable
A history of Jim Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review, this book traces Richards' ideas about anonymity and concepts of public participation in modern architecture. It explores how these ideas responded to the changing contexts of the mid-twentieth century. Richards was a member of the MARS group, he appeared extensively on BBC radio, was architectural correspondent for The Times newspaper and a member of the Architecture Committee for the Festival of Britain. He was also the author of An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which was published in several editions in the UK and America by Penguin publishers. This book explores his career and what it reveals about the history of modern architecture in Britain.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsNovember 2022
No more giants
J. M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review
by Jessica Kelly, Sally-Anne Huxtable
A history of Jim Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review, this book traces Richards' ideas about anonymity and concepts of public participation in modern architecture. It explores how these ideas responded to the changing contexts of the mid-twentieth century. Richards was a member of the MARS group, he appeared extensively on BBC radio, was architectural correspondent for The Times newspaper and a member of the Architecture Committee for the Festival of Britain. He was also the author of An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which was published in several editions in the UK and America by Penguin publishers. This book explores his career and what it reveals about the history of modern architecture in Britain.