Interwar (eBook)

Definitive ... both vital and clear, a book steeped in technical detail, full of meticulous attention, yet accessible and without prejudice - never dry and certainly not florid ... Stamp wrote definitive books on grand and humble subjects

This posthumous volume is the masterpiece [Stamp] did not publish in his lifetime. It puts his memory on a new plane

A provocative as well as a stimulating book ... Thoroughly recommended

His greatest work ... When so much of our built environment is unlovely, Stamp shows why it is worth looking again, and harder

Stamp was a superb writer with an untouchable knowledge of the period ... a wonderful memorial to a great writer

Meticulous ... a fascinating new survey of the era

A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer

Extraordinary ... a magnificent tour d'horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects

Extraordinary

Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... rich ... offers a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era chiefly defined by its multiplicity of styles

Majestic ... [an] excitable, illuminating and sure to be enduring work

Stamp was a superb writer with an unmatchable knowledge of the period concerned... Interwar is most definitely a proper book, and a wonderful memorial to a great writer.

A rebuttal of the modernist-centric view of interwar British architecture. It was much more diverse than people think, [Stamp] argues, and studying the lesser-known movements is key to understanding the period

Extraordinary ... a most brilliant, authoritative and engaging guide ... Stamp's ability to present clearly for a general audience was as unusual as it is remarkable

A plea for the recognition of the incredible diversity of interwar architecture, from suburban Tudorbethan semis to Battersea Power Station

A masterful revision of the history of interwar architecture, no longer as a barren seedbed of modernism but as an era of stylistic diversity, invention and delight

Love it or hate it, [interwar Britain] was a period full of personality: a changing society recovering from war and the Depression, hungry for a different future. There is fascination in their built footprints

Excellent ... Gavin Stamp attempts to reclaim the half-timbered semi of the Twenties and Thirties for the British cultural imagination