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Interwar

British Architecture 1919-39

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

Richard Morrison, The Times

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

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

'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times

'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, Telegraph

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War.

At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's leading architectural critics, was at work on a deeply considered account of British architecture in the interwar period, correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who were unable to see past modernism. Beginning with a survey of the modern movement after the armistice, Interwar untangles the threads that link lesser-known movements like the Egyptian revival with the enduring popularity of the Tudorbethan, to chronicle one of Britain's most dynamic architectural periods. The result is more than an architectural history - it is the portrait of a changing nation.

As an account of the period that still shapes much of Britain's towns and cities, Gavin Stamp's final work is the definitive history of British architecture between the Great War and the Blitz.

Detaljer

Forlag
Profile Books Ltd
Innbinding
Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
576
ISBN
9781800817395
Utgivelsesår
2024
Format
24 x 16 cm

Om forfatteren

Gavin Stamp was an architectural historian and scholar, one of Britain's leading experts on pre-war building and design. 'Brought up in a Tudor bungalow on the Orpington by-pass', as he recalled, he was educated on a scholarship at Dulwich College. Prolific as an author, curator and journalist, as 'Piloti' he wrote Private Eye's 'Nooks & Corners' column from 1978 until his death in 2017. He was chairman of the 20th-Century Society from 1983-2007, and wrote more than twenty books on topics including Edwin Lutyens, George Gilbert Scott, brutalism and telephone boxes.

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

Richard Morrison, The Times

«A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer»

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

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

Financial Times

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

New Statesman

«Meticulous ... a fascinating new survey of the era»

Prospect

«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»

Country Life

«Simple and elegant ... never doctrinaire, [Stamp] is an accessible gentleman-scholar guide to his subject ... Interwar is a riposte to the standard narrative about the emergence of modernism»

Times Literary Supplement

«Thrilling ... Interwar looks to redress the imbalance Stamp saw in our architectural history - namely, that there was more to the interbellum period than modernism. Taking in everything from the Egyptian revival to the ubiquitous Tudorbethan, this handsome title makes the case for a more dynamic and diverse view of the past»

The Modern House

«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.»

Art Newspaper

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

The Critic

«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»

Simon Jenkins

«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»

Spectator

«'Magisterial ... a monumental achievement ... in untangling the threads of a period of unimaginable change and stubborn constancy, Stamp is a forensic and sympathetic chronicler. You wish he were still on the stage. But in Interwar he has left behind the work of a lifetime»

Apollo Magazine

«[Interwar] is valuable in its lively and perceptive discussion of a range of buildings and debates from the period»

Literary Review

«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»

Apollo

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

Context

«Extraordinary»

Aaron Bastani, Novara Media

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

Unherd

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

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