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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

BOOKSpace, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32120

Space, Hope, and Brutalism is the first major book to study English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety. Challenging previous scholarship on the subject and uncovering vast amounts of new material at the boundaries between architectural and social history, Elain Harwood structures the book around building types to reveal why the architecture takes the form it does. Buildings of all budgets and styles are examined, from major universities to the modest café. The book is illustrated with stunning new photography that reveals the logic, aspirations, and beauty of hundreds of buildings throughout England, at the point where many are disappearing or are being mutilated.

Space, Hope, and Brutalism offers a convincing and lively overview of a subject and period that fascinates younger scholars and appeals to those who were witnesses to this history.

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Print publication date September 2015 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300204469

EISBN 9780300279276

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Illustrations 361

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List of illustrations

Cambridge School of Architecture, view of Scroope Terrace
Peter Jones, Sloane Square
The Homewood
Brackenfell, Capon Tree Road
Library, St. Catherine’s College, interior
Keelson, Hills Avenue
The Festival of Britain, the main South Bank exhibition
Royal Festival Hall, the auditorium, South Bank
Alton West, Roehampton
Langham House Close, Ham Common
View of Central Plymouth
Central Broadmead
City of Coventry Plan
Broadgate House
Lower Precinct
Coventry Retail Market, showing roundabout
Proposed new town at Ongar
Clock Tower, Lansbury, Tower Hamlets
Orchard Croft
The Lawn, Mark Hall North
Point Royal
The Twin Foxes public house
The Stow
Water Gardens
Town centre
Sunny Blunts
Apollo Pavilion
Plan of Hook
Coralline Walk
Bishopsfield (The Casbah)
The Concourse Shopping Centre
The Brow
Flats, Edith Avenue
Netherfield housing
Shopping Building
9 and 11 Ellers Lane
B2 aluminium prefabricated bungalow
Scudamore Place
Walker's Terrace
The Street
Flats in St Matthew's Close
Barn Field and Wood Field, Parkhill Road, Camden
Bledmundsbury, Dombey Street, Holborn
Hallfield Estate, Paddington
Bevin Court, Holford Square, Finsbury
Lutyens, Wilkinson and Chippendale houses, Churchill Gardens Estate
Nicholl House and Needwood House, Woodberry Down
Roehampton Lane Estate (now Alton West) in the foreground
Portsmouth Road (now Alton East) Estate
Brandon Estate, Southwark
Golden Lane Estate, City of London
Barbican, City of London
Dorset Estate (Arline Street), Bethnal Green
Keeling House, Claredale Street, Bethnal Green
Park Hill
Wyndham Court
Balfron Tower, Tower Hamlets
Trellick Tower, Cheltenham Estate
Robin Hood Gardens, Tower Hamlets
Morris Walk, Woolwich
Housing in The Ryde
Lillington Gardens, Westminster
Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury
Fleet Road II, now Dunboyne Road, Gospel Oak
Alexandra Road, South Hampstead
Branch Hill, Hampstead
Dawson's Heights, Southwark
Emmanuel Estate, Camberwell Road
Lambeth Towers, Kennington Road
Shipley Walk, Byker Wall
Kendal Street
14–37 Highsett, Hills Road
Park Gate, Somerhill Road
New Ash Green
Lakeside Drive, Esher
High Kingsdown
Cedarwood, Beaconsfield Road, interior
5 Pennyfather's Lane, interior
St Anne's Close, Highgate
South Winds, Cryfield Grange Road
78 South Hill Park, Hampstead, interior
Trees, Middle Drive, Woolsington
82 South Hill Park, Hampstead, interior
Sugden House (2 Farm Field, Devereux Drive), interior
Upper Lawn (The Solar Pavilion)
22 Avenue Road
3 Clarkson Road, interior
Spence House, Beaulieu
Loom Lane, Radlett, interior
Vista Point, Angmering, interior view of stairs
Farnley Hey, Farnley Tyas, interior
High Sunderland, near Selkirk, interior
Turn End, Haddenham
New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood
Somerton Erleigh, Somerton
Grantchester Road
Spring House (Cornford House), Conduit Head Road, interior
Ketelfield, Higham
Space House, Pine Grove, East Grinstead, interior
62 Camden Mews
Maltings Chase, Nayland with Wissington
15–19 (odd) Murray Mews, Camden
15 Torriano Cottages, Kentish Town, view of courtyard
Creekvean, Pill Lane, Feock
Rogers House, Parkside, Wimbledon
Ferrum House, Grange Court Road, Harpenden, interior
Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Tunbridge Wells
Arundel Park
Folly
Kings Walden Bury
Upper Exbury, interior
Stratton Park
Hill House
Romney Avenue Infants School
Templewood School mural
Sprites School, Sprites Lane
Susan Lawrence, now Lansbury Lawrence School, Cordelia Street, Tower Hamlets, interior
Westville Road, now Greenside School, Hammersmith
Hallfield School, Paddington, interior
Brunswick Park School, assembly and dining hall
St Leonard's Junior School
Eastfield Primary School
Great Waldingfield Primary School
High School for Girls
Hunstanton Secondary School, now Smithson School
Sydenham Girls' School
Oldbury Wells School, former girls' school
Kidbrooke School, interior
Elliott School, Putney
Rutherford School, now King Solomon's Academy, St Marylebone, interior
Haggerson School, Hackney
Lyng Hall School, originally for girls
Countesthorpe College
St Paul's Cathedral School
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School, Orpington, interior
King Edward VI Grammar School, sports pavilion
Nuffield College
St Catherine's College
Dining Hall, Churchill College
Falmer House
New Hall, now Murray Edwards College
Law Library, St Cross Building
Beehives, North Quad, St John's College
Staircases L, M, and N, Brasenose College
Blue Boar Quad, Christ Church
Cripps Building, St John's College
Wolfson College
Oxford Centre for Management Studies, Kennington
George Thomson Building, Leckhampton, Corpus Christi College
Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College, interior
University Centre
Senior Combination Room, Downing College
Clare Hall
Florey Building, The Queen's College
Garden Building, St Hilda's College
St Mary's College, interior
Palace Green Library, interior
Mary Harris Memorial Chapel, interior
Physics and Cambridge Buildings
Cripps Hall
Arts Tower
Marshall Library, Economics and Politics Building, Sidgwik Avenue site, interior
History Faculty, interior
Atrium of Ashley Building
Library, Law Building, interior
Engineering Building
Library (Philips Building) to the School of Oriental and African Studies, interior
Physics Building
Roger Stevens Building, lecture theaters and television studios
Attenborough, formerly Gardner, Arts Centre
Langwith Hall
Dining Hall, Rutherford College
Houses for Visiting Mathematicians
Norfolk Terrace (ziggurat blocks)
Keynes, Tawney and William Morris towers
Chaplaincy Centre
Weeks Hall, Imperial College
Hollings College (The Toast Rack)
Renold Building, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Stag Hill Court (formerly Cathedral Court)
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore
Woodberry Down Health Centre
Woodberry Down, interior staircase with etched glass balustrades, detail
MEA House (Community Services Building), Ellison Place
Admissions Unit, Fairmile Hospital, Chosley
Princess Margaret Hospital
Wrexham Park Hospital, ward blocks viewed from the tower
Northwick Park Hospital
Comparative plans of Northwick park, 1962, and Greenwich District Hospital, 1963
Greenwich District Hospital
Wythenshawe Bus Garage, washing bays
Stockwell Bus Garage
Preston Bus Station
Manchester Oxford Road Station
Coventry Station
Birmingham New Street signal box
Paddington Maintenance Depot
Clapham Deep Tube Shelter
Hanger Lane Underground Station
Newbury Park Bus Station
Highams, Alderly Edge Garage
Dover Stage Hotel
Forton Motorway Services
Lune Bridge
Severn Bridge
Blackwall Tunnel, north ventilation tower
Faraday Memorial, Elephant and Castle
Southwyck House, Brixton
Birmingham Smallbrook Ringway, now Queensway, rotunda
Kingsway Tunnel Ventilation Tower
Brabazon Hangar, Filton
Air jetty, Terminal 1, Heathrow Airport
Technical Block A, Heathrow
Main concourse to the terminal building, Gatwick Airport
Ratcliffe Power Station
Bankside Power Station
Oldbury Power Station
Heaton Park Pumping Station
Ladybower Reservoir
Yeovil Cattle Market
Furniture Industry Research Association
Headstocks for Koepe winding gear, Clipstone Colliery
Sugar Silo, Regent Road
John Lewis warehouse
Commonwealth Centre, Scott Bader
Bracken House, City of London
Birmingham Post and Mail offices and printing works
LCC flatted factories, Long Street and Waterson Street, Hoxton
Birds Eye offices
Heinz, Hayes, Uxbridge
Boots D90 Building
New Covent Garden Flower Market
Cummins Engine Factory
British Gas Engineering Research Station
Horizon Factory
Former IBM temporary head offices, Cosham
Rotork Controls
Teaching and Social Wing for Olivetti Training Centre
Lewis's Department Store, Ranelagh Street
Castle House, interior staircase
Castle Market, interior
Smithfield Poultry Market, City of London, interior
Treaty Centre (Trinity Square)
Tricorn Centre
Pall Mall Court
No. 100 Pall Mall
No. 219 Oxford Street
Time and Life Building, New Bond Street, detail of stair hall and lobby
Carr and Co.
Sanderson House, Berners Street, interior view of staircase
Vickers (Millbank) Tower
New Zealand House, Haymarket
Economist Building, St James's
Centre Point
Nat West Tower (Tower 42)
Corinthian House, Dingwall Road, Croydon
New Century House
Former Pilkington's headquarters
Robinson Building
Halifax Building Society headquarters
Gateway House 1, now Mountbatten House
Willis Building (originally Willis, Faber and Dumas), interior
Hotel Leofric
Former Jack Straw's Castle public house
White Knight
Victoria, Strathearn Place, Paddington, interior
E. Pellicci, interior
LCC Restaurant, interior
The Dell, Hyde Park
St Philip, Cosham, interior
St Vedast, Foster Lane, City of London, interior
Church of the Ascension, CrownhiIl, interior
St James, Clapham, interior
St Paul, Lorrimore Square, interior
St Oswald, Tile Hill, interior
Baptist church, Notte Street
Finnish Church (former Seamen's Mission), interior
The Lady Chapel, Holy Cross
Our Lady of the Rosary, Old Marylebone Road, interior
St Mary, Leyland, interior
Christ Church, Cheylesmore, interior
Coventry Cathedral, detail of interior roof canopy
Cathedral Church of St Michael and All Angels, Conventry, choir and sanctuary
Cathedral Church of St Michael and All Angels, Conventry, clergy stalls
St Paul, College Square, interior
Scargill Chapel, Kettlewell
St Paul, Bow Common, Tower Hamlets
St Matthew, Perry Beeches, interior
Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, West Malling Abbey
Holy Family, Blackbird Leys, interior
Notre Dame de France, Leicester Place, City of Westminster, interior
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, external buttresses
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, interior
London Central Mosque, Regent's Park
Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul, Clifton, interior
Keele University Chapel, interior (above the Roman Catholic sanctuary)
SS Philip and James, Hodge Hill, interior
Kensington Library, interior
Holborn Library, LB Camden, interior
Swiss Cottage Library, Hampstead, interior
Bradford Central Library, interior
Fullwell Cross Library, LB Redbridge
Jesmond Branch Library, St George's Terrace
Birmingham Central Library
Redcar Library, interior
Maidenhead Library
St Austell Library, interior
Oasis Pool, Holborn, LB Camden, interior
Coventry Central Baths, interior
National Recreation Centre, Crystal Palace, interior
Geoffrey Hughes Memorial Athletic Ground
Edinburgh Dome, Malvern Girls' College (now Malvern St James)
Billingham Forum, interior
Oasis Leisure Center, interior
South Bank Centre, plan
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, interior
Purcell Room, South Bank
National Theatre, South Bank, interior
Chapel, Middleton Hall, interior
Belgrade Theatre, interior
Nottingham Playhouse, interior
Chichester Festival Theatre
Leatherhead Theatre, interior
Crucible Theatre, interior
Barbican Arts Centre, City of London, interior
Gulbenkian Theatre, interior
Rosehill Theatre, interior
Theatre Royal
Snape Maltings, interior
Curzon Mayfair Cinema, interior
Commonwealth Institute, Kensington
Christ Church Picture Gallery, interior
Kettle's Yard
Three Standing Figures
Islington Green School mural
BT Tower
Equatorial Group, the Observatory Science Centre (former Royal Greenwich Observatory)
BBC Television Centre, White City, interior
Wood Street Police Station, City of London
Chesterfield Court House
Manchester Courts of Justice
Old Bailey extension, City of London, interior
Congress House, Great Russell Street, interior
Bristol Council House
Staines Municipal Offices, now Spelthorne Council Offices, Knowle Green
Devon County Hall
Scunthorpe Civic Centre, interior
Carlisle Civic Centre
Newcastle Civic Centre
Newcastle Civic Centre, interior view of staircase
Plymouth Civic Centre
Lys Kernow, former New County Hall, Truro, interior
Whitehall, plan (unbuilt)
Ministry of Justice Offices, formerly the Home Office
Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, interior
Council Chamber, Sunderland Civic Centre, interior
Hillingdon Civic Centre, Uxbridge
Sunderland Civic Centre, outdoor stairs
Conference Centre, Minster Lovell
Underhill, Holme
Sutton Place, showing relief by Ben Nicholson in a landscape by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32121

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

This is a book about the rebuilding of England after the Second World War, when architects were among those who sought to create better living and working conditions for everyone, a better educational environment and support for the arts. The hopes engendered by Clement Attlee’s Labour governments of 1945–51 saw some realisation into the...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32122

Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

All things are ready if our minds be so.William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3; quoted in Patrick Abercrombie, Greater London Plan, 1944 (London: HMSO, 1945), p. 1.

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Related print edition pages: pp.ix-xxxi

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32123

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945Architectural firms--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Architects--Great Britain--20th centuryCity planning--England--20th centuryFestival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

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1. Planned Town Centres and New Towns

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Two aspects of town planning assumed importance in the post-war years. The rebuilding of Britain’s war-damaged city centres in a more logical fashion with updated shopping areas and roads was bound up with deep-seated concerns for sanitary conditions and the imbalance of new industries between older industrial areas and the expanding south-east. The responses of the emerging town planning...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.3-45

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32124

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryCity planning--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Garden City movementArchitects--Great Britain--20th centuryArchitectural firms--20th centuryLandscape architecture--Great Britain--20th century

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Winston Churchill’s words of October 1940 appeared on the frontispiece of Forshaw’s and Abercrombie’s County of London Plan, indicating how housing formed the core of post-war reconstruction.Winston...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.49-113

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32125

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryHousing development--England--20th centuryPrefabricated houses--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Midcentury modern (Architecture)Apartment buildings--England--20th century

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3. Private Houses

Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

In an era dominated by public works, it is easy to overlook the building of private houses. Yet, though eclipsed by the increasing scale, range and prestige of other commissions, the house remained a perfect vehicle for experimenting with new ideas, and many small practices specialised in the genre. It also served as a ‘calling card’ for young architects, just as it had in the 1920s...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Related print edition pages: pp.117-162

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32126

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryArchitecture, Domestic--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Midcentury modern (Architecture)Architects--Great Britain--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Schools were one area in which the ‘new program of living’, envisaged by Lewis Mumford and sought by politicians and architects after 1945, made firm progress. Ten thousand primary schools were built between 1945 and...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.167-203

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32127

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centurySchool buildings--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Brutalism (Architecture)Architects--Great Britain--20th century

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5. Higher Education

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

In March 1957 The Times castigated the buildings erected by English universities since the war as ‘very...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Related print edition pages: pp.207-273

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32128

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryUniversities and colleges--England--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)Modernism (Aesthetics)

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6. Healthcare and Hospitals

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Britain was the first major country in the world to have a National Health Service (NHS), where health provision is owned and managed by the state and largely supported by taxation...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.277-295

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32129

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)Hospitals--Great Britain--20th centuryNational health services--Great Britain--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Transportation was the greatest area of change in the twentieth century. Towns and suburbs had been planned around the railway and tram, to which the inter-war decades added the trolleybus and motor bus. But it was the motor car that changed Britain most profoundly, though it proved the hardest of all innovations to...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.299-331

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32130

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryBridges--Design and construction--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Railroad stations--England--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)City planning--England--20th century

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8. Energy, Agriculture and Industry

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Britain sacrificed its economy to win the Second World War. The balance of payments moved so far into deficit that borrowing reached £10,000 million, of which half was met by disinvestment in overseas securities and much of the remainder by interest-free loans (Lend-Lease) from the United States. The new Labour Government in July 1945 looked to America, hoping for a transitional period in...

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Related print edition pages: pp.335-371

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32131

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Power-plants--England--20th centuryPumping stations--England--20th centuryWarehouses--England--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)

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9. Commercial Buildings

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

‘The shops, the pubs, the big bold cinemas, the tonic banks . . . a high proportion of all these are the work of the architectural “salariat”. And a high proportion are not a quarter as good as they...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.375-417

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32132

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryDepartment stores--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Markets--England--20th centuryOffice buildings--England--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)

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10. Places of Worship

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

The Church of England was one area where decent architecture already had a place in ordinary people’s lives, for since the eighteenth century some of its most interesting buildings had been built in working-class areas. Such building also demonstrated that the Anglicans had long struggled to attract...

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Related print edition pages: pp.421-459

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32133

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryChurch architecture--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)

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11. Leisure and Culture

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

The first public museums were established on a halfpenny rate following legislation in 1845. The boroughs of Canterbury, Warrington and Salford used the same Act of Parliament to open libraries, and in 1850 the Public Libraries Act allowed a penny rate for these. Meanwhile, in 1846 the Baths and Wash-houses Act...

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Related print edition pages: pp.463-519

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryLibrary architecture--England--20th centurySwimming pools--Design and construction--England--20th centuryTheaters--England--London--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)Midcentury modern (Architecture)Museum architecture--England--20th century

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12. Public Buildings

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Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

After 1945 schools and housing, rather than showpiece town halls, became the measure of a local authority’s worth. New civic offices were more numerous than is supposed, but were outside the architectural...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Related print edition pages: pp.523-561

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32135

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryPublic buildings--England--London--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

It seemed in 1960 that the slow, steady growth in building during the 1950s was about to blossom into a wholesale transformation of...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

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Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

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