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Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture (Paperback)
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Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture (Paperback)
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In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and
his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London,
which Le Corbusier called 'revolutionary'. Three years later,
Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II felt very
different, and the sense that the ideals of modernism had been
abandoned seemed hard to dispute. Had modern architecture failed to
take root in England? This book challenges the belief that English
architecture was on hiatus during the 1930s. Using Highpoint II as
a springboard, Deborah Lewittes takes us on a journey through the
defining moments of modern English architecture - the 'high points'
of the period surrounding Highpoint II. Drawing on Lubetkin's work
and his writings, the book argues that he advanced influential,
lasting theories which were rooted in his design for Highpoint II.
Lubetkin's work is explored within the context of wider Jewish
emigration to London during the interwar years as well as the
anti-Semitism that pervaded Britain during the 1930s. As Lewittes
demonstrates, this decade was anything but quiet. Providing a new
perspective on twentieth-century English architecture, this book is
of interest to students and scholars in architectural history,
urban studies, Jewish studies, and related fields.
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