Reconstruction -

Reconstruction

Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War

Neal Shasore, Jessica Kelly (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
408 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-28392-3 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)

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. Filling an important gap in surveys of 20th-century British architecture, 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 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 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.

Neal Shasore is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Architecture, Liverpool University. Jessica Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies in Design at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword: Towards Narratives of Modernity After Reconstruction – Elizabeth Darling
Acknowledgements

Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly

Section I: Promoting the Business of Architecture
Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly
I: Criticism: The Architectural Press and the Public - Jessica Kelly
II: Professionalism: The American Influence on British Architectural Practice - H Horatio Joyce
III: Regulation: The New London - Eileen Chanin
IV: Development: Speculative Office Development and Public Sector Tenants - Jonathan Clarke

Section II: Designing Community Infrastructure
Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly
V: Community Centre: New Housing Estates in Scotland - Alistair Fair
VI: Public House: The Carlisle Experiment and the Improved Public House - Julian Holder
VII: Parish: Democratic Participation in Suburban Parish Churches - Clare Price

Section III: Building a Rural Citizenry
Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly
VIII: Yeoman: Land Settlement and Cottage Small Holdings - Rebecca Preston and Joanna Smith
IX: Veteran: Annabel Dott and Colonial, Metropolitan and Rural Communities - Elizabeth McKellar
X: Student: Henry Morris and the First Village Colleges - Kieran Mahon

Section IV: Binding Subjects through Statecraft
Introduction - Neal Shasore
XI: Citizenship: Welfare and the Democratic State in Percy Thomas’s Civic Architecture - Robert Proctor
XII: Memory: Sir Herbert Baker, Rhodes House and the Architecture of Memory - Geoffrey Tyack
XIII: Diocese: Cairo Cathedral and the Politics of Liberal Anglican Church Design - David Lewis

Section V: Wedding Peace with Well-Being
XIV: Sickness: Advances in British Hospital Design after the First World War - Harriet Richardson Blakeman
XV: Health: Democracy, Diversity, Dispersal - Barry Doyle

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 86 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-350-28392-4 / 1350283924
ISBN-13 978-1-350-28392-3 / 9781350283923
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