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Architecture and the Face of Coal - Mining and Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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Architecture and the Face of Coal - Mining and Modern Britain (Hardcover)
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With only a handful of British coalmines remaining active and with
targets set to reduce carbon emissions, the coal industry now seems
to be heading towards extinction. Yet, it was coal that turned
Britain into a world-leader during the Industrial Revolution and
established the conditions for the modern state. In the 20th
century, it generated building programmes on a massive scale
concerning miners' welfare, settlements and housing. The form,
space, organisation, and aesthetics of architecture became of
critical importance not just to the process of the industry's
modernisation but also how it was perceived and understood both
within and outside its workforce. But despite the centrality of
coal mining and its workers to the development of modern Britain,
as well as the contemporary recognition that aspects of its
innovative architecture received, its built legacy has often been
overlooked and physically almost completely erased. Divided into
three parts, this is the first book which provides a critical and
comprehensive examination of the architecture of coal in Britain
and how it responded to the needs of the industry and, perhaps more
significantly, its labour force. Part I explores the relationship
between the architecture of coal and the provision of welfare.
While this produced a series of enlightened built projects for
miners and their communities especially between the wars -
educational buildings, reading rooms, holiday camps, welfare
institutes, sports grounds, swimming pools, medical centres,
children's playgrounds, etc. - it focusses on the paradigmatic
integration of aesthetics and programme seen most emphatically in
the creation of over 600 pithead baths. Part II looks at settlement
and the relationships between responses to often adverse conditions
within domestic environments in mining settlements and the
development of broader and influential theories and practices
concerning housing. Finally, Part III explores the modernisation of
the industry during the post-war period arguing that that
architectural design and representation became pivotal to the
functional and symbolic requirements of the newly Nationalised
entity and its position within, and singular contribution to,
post-war society.
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