Post-Modern Buildings in Britain
Published on 2. November 2017
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-84994-450-2 (ISBN)
Description
An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style - and its finest examples
Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began to disappear. Now is the time to reassess its values. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples. Individual entries are beautifully illustrated, many with new photography, including the SIS Building made famous by James Bond, John Outram's awe-inspiring pumping station in London's Docklands and Judge Institute in Cambridge, and the late works of James Stirling and Michael Wilford, including No.1 Poultry - an extraordinary corner of the City that in 2016 became England's youngest listed building.
Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began to disappear. Now is the time to reassess its values. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples. Individual entries are beautifully illustrated, many with new photography, including the SIS Building made famous by James Bond, John Outram's awe-inspiring pumping station in London's Docklands and Judge Institute in Cambridge, and the late works of James Stirling and Michael Wilford, including No.1 Poultry - an extraordinary corner of the City that in 2016 became England's youngest listed building.
Reviews / Votes
'We maybe haven't realised quite how much of this landmark architecture there is all over Britain, and how much of it is actually really good. This book is a brilliant catalogue that way, it's exciting and really fun.'John Grindrod, Five Books
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1023 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84994-450-2 (9781849944502)
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Geraint Franklin | Elain Harwood
Post-Modern Buildings in Britain
E-Book
07/2023
Batsford
€22.79
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Persons
Geraint Franklin is an architectural historian from Historic England. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the firm Howell Killick Partridge & Amis. It will be published in June 2017 in collaboration with RIBA and the Twentieth Century Society.Elain Harwood is a historian with Historic England, and author of Space Hope and Brutalism, England's Post-War Listed Buildings and Art Deco Britain. She gives lectures and leads tours for the C20 Society, and has published Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in association with them, HE and the RIBA, and 100 Buildings/Houses/Churches/Landscapes, 100Years in association with Batsford. She lives in London.