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This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships
between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the
1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural,
urban, design, labour, and social history approach the topic
through case studies of often neglected organisations, individuals,
practices and initiatives. Included are East End rent collectors,
tenants, diarists and correspondents, the All-Europe House, the
Women's Co-operative Guild, the Housewives Committee of the Council
of Industrial Design, provincial and metropolitan exhibitors, and
activists of varying kinds. Moving beyond the study of buildings
and their designers, the volume considers the making of space in
its broadest sense, from the production of discourses to the
consumption of domestic appliances and the performance of roles as
diverse as social reformers, committee members and homemakers. It
thereby demonstrates that women made a significant contribution to
the creation of modern built environments in both public and
private spheres.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships
between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the
1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural,
urban, design, labour, and social history approach the topic
through case studies of often neglected organisations, individuals,
practices and initiatives. Included are East End rent collectors,
tenants, diarists and correspondents, the All-Europe House, the
Women's Co-operative Guild, the Housewives Committee of the Council
of Industrial Design, provincial and metropolitan exhibitors, and
activists of varying kinds. Moving beyond the study of buildings
and their designers, the volume considers the making of space in
its broadest sense, from the production of discourses to the
consumption of domestic appliances and the performance of roles as
diverse as social reformers, committee members and homemakers. It
thereby demonstrates that women made a significant contribution to
the creation of modern built environments in both public and
private spheres.
Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of
architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light.
Bringing hitherto little considered protagonists and projects to
the fore, it argues that rather than being an imported idiom, the
new architecture in Britain formed part of an ongoing attempt to
make a modern nation. Spanning the period 1925-42, the book focuses
on the key sites from and through which architectural modernism
emerged in the UK. Part one considers the main arena in which a
will to modernize Britain developed in the 1920s. In parts two and
three the author documents, contextualizes and explains how this
modernizing will was given modernist form, discussing the work of
architects such as Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, and Connell and Ward,
and their allied ventures with likeminded reformers in other
fields. These collaborations produced 'narratives of modernity':
buildings, projects, exhibitions and books, through which, the book
argues, modernist reformers were able to persuade politicians, and
those with influence upon them, that modernism was the means to
re-form the nation. Re-forming Britain offers the first in-depth
analysis of well-known modernist schemes such as Kensal House and
the Pioneer Health Centre but also brings previously little studied
or unknown activities to light. This important work invites a new
understanding of the nature of architectural modernism in inter-war
Britain and the ways in which it ultimately gave form to post-war
Britain.
Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of
architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light.
Bringing hitherto little considered protagonists and projects to
the fore, it argues that rather than being an imported idiom, the
new architecture in Britain formed part of an ongoing attempt to
make a modern nation. Spanning the period 1925-42, the book focuses
on the key sites from and through which architectural modernism
emerged in the UK. Part one considers the main arena in which a
will to modernize Britain developed in the 1920s. In parts two and
three the author documents, contextualizes and explains how this
modernizing will was given modernist form, discussing the work of
architects such as Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, and Connell and Ward,
and their allied ventures with likeminded reformers in other
fields. These collaborations produced 'narratives of modernity':
buildings, projects, exhibitions and books, through which, the book
argues, modernist reformers were able to persuade politicians, and
those with influence upon them, that modernism was the means to
re-form the nation. Re-forming Britain offers the first in-depth
analysis of well-known modernist schemes such as Kensal House and
the Pioneer Health Centre but also brings previously little studied
or unknown activities to light. This important work invites a new
understanding of the nature of architectural modernism in inter-war
Britain and the ways in which it ultimately gave form to post-war
Britain.
Brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to
exploring and analysing cases in which women have resourcefully
leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform
architecture and urbanism Draws on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century architectural case studies from the USA, South
Africa, Scotland, India and England Politically-charged and
engaging text aimed at academics, researchers and students engaged
in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and
social and cultural history.
Brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to
exploring and analysing cases in which women have resourcefully
leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform
architecture and urbanism Draws on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century architectural case studies from the USA, South
Africa, Scotland, India and England Politically-charged and
engaging text aimed at academics, researchers and students engaged
in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and
social and cultural history.
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