Reconstruction: architecture, society and the aftermath of the First World War

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Towards narratives of modernity after reconstruction -- Introduction -- Section I: Promoting the business of architecture -- 1 Criticism: The architectural press and the publ...

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Weitere Verfasser: Shasore, Neal 1989- (HerausgeberIn), Kelly, Jessica (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Towards narratives of modernity after reconstruction -- Introduction -- Section I: Promoting the business of architecture -- 1 Criticism: The architectural press and the public -- 2 Professionalism: The American influence on British architectural practice -- 3 Regulation: The 'New London' -- 4 Development: Speculative office development and public sector tenants -- Section II: Designing community infrastructure -- 5 Community Centre: New housing estates in Scotland -- 6 Public House: The Carlisle experiment and the improved public house -- 7 Parish: Democratic participation in suburban parish churches -- Section III: Building a rural citizenry -- 8 Yeoman: Land settlement and cottage smallholdings -- 9 Veteran: Annabel Dott and colonial, metropolitan and rural communities -- 10 Student: Henry Morris and the first village colleges -- Section IV: Binding subjects through statecraft -- 11 Citizenship: Welfare and the democratic state in Percy Thomas's civic architecture -- 12 Sir Herbert Baker, Rhodes House and the architecture of memory -- 13 Diocese: Cairo Cathedral and the politics of Liberal Anglican Church design -- Section V: Wedding peace with well-being -- 14 Sickness: Advances in British hospital design after the First World War -- 15 Health: Democracy, diversity, dispersal -- Index -- Imprint.
Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. This volume reveals how the architectural developments of this period not only provided important foundations for what happened after 1945 - they are also of real significance in their own right.Sixteen essays written by leading and emerging scholars bring together new and diverse approaches to the period - a period of reconstruction, fraught with the challenges of modernity and democratisation. The collection considers the complex effects of reconstruction on design, discourse, practice, and professionalism, and deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, and makes important postcolonial interventions into the architectural history of British Imperialism at home and in its far reaches; in Cairo, South Africa, Australia, and India.
Beschreibung:"The proposal for this volume grew out of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's (SAHGB) Annual Symposium in 2018 [...] held at Charles Holden's Senate House in the University of London" (Acknowledgements)
Beschreibung:xxv, 380 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781350152946
9781350283923

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