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1960s University Buildings

- The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture
Af: John Barr
Engelsk Hardback

1960s University Buildings

- The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture
Af: John Barr
Engelsk Hardback

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The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. This book discusses the architectural thinking of the time through an examination of the design of university buildings. While there were notable buildings being built in other spheres, no other field of architecture provided the opportunity to express those ideas as freely, while also reflecting innovative new thinking about education and society. Somehow, the university buildings of the 1960s seemed to represent the cutting edge of modern architecture in the UK.

This book provides the first critical analysis and overview of these buildings, designed by some of the leading British architects of the period including Basil Spence, Leslie Martin, Alison and Peter Smithson, Denys Lasdun, Powell and Moya and James Stirling. By placing the buildings in a wider social, cultural and political context, it examines the combination of circumstances and attitudes that produced results that are equally admired and detested and allows us to understand how we might replicate or avoid them in the future.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781848226708
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1848226705
Udg. Dato:
18 jun 2025
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
258mm
Forlag:
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
18 jun 2025
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