Reconstruction (eBook, ePUB)

Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War
Redaktion: Shasore, Neal; Kelly, Jessica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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 written by leading and emerging scholars 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 deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350152960
• Artikelnr.: 67399170

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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