New Ways: The Founding of Modernism features the rise during the
interwar period of a group of engineers, architects, sculptors,
ceramicists, artists, furniture-makers, craftsmen and patrons to
the forefront of British art and design. Important to the Founding
of Modernism was the cooperation between a group of emigre
architects and engineers, and their home-grown counterparts who,
between them, found ways to bring into being the strict geometric
and modernistic forms that were demanded by the Movement. In the
1920s, the technology of concrete casting was developing very
rapidly as was that of steel reinforcement and new developments
gave rise to greater possibilities for structures. Initially,
expertise, and then the promotion of this new technology to
architects and their clients, fell to a number of specialist
overseas contracting companies. The early decades of the twentieth
century in the UK saw, in place of an architect to contractor
relationship, a rise of the new profession of consultant structural
engineer. Up to this point, architects had fulfilled the role of
both building designer and engineer. The British Modern Movement
was profoundly influenced by this group of European emigre
architects and engineers, some of whom remained in the UK thus
ensuring that the Modern Movement re-emerged and continued in the
UK once peace returned to Europe after WWII. Through an expert
combination of words and illustrations, the author weaves an
illuminating tapestry of people and structures in all sectors of
life from residential to worship, media to entertainment, commerce
and more thus creating a forceful appreciation of the movement.
This fertile period of art, architecture and design was typified by
a great commonality of purpose between designers, their clients and
patrons. Buildings and artefacts were produced such that their
designers might appreciate and wish them for their own use,
especially in housebuilding and home-making. Friendships and
associations by Modernists in allied professions presented a
unified approach to design and patronage.
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