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British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise
of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the
Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but
the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and
the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of
styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that
reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second
World War. At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of
Britain's leading architectural critics, was at work on a deeply
considered account of British architecture in the interwar period,
correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who
were unable to see past modernism. Beginning with a survey of the
modern movement after the armistice, Interwar untangles the threads
that link lesser-known movements like the Egyptian revival with the
enduring popularity of the Tudorbethan, to chronicle one of
Britain's most dynamic architectural periods. The result is more
than an architectural history - it is the portrait of a changing
nation. As an account of the period that still shapes much of
Britain's towns and cities, Gavin Stamp's final work is the
definitive history of British architecture between the Great War
and the Blitz.
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in
Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists,
is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect
in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression
of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the
Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916,
and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never
found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant
study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of
the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it
considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms,
and also explores its wider historical significance and its
resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century
is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a
shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of
the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the 'disappeared' of South America
and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition
for the centenary of the Somme.
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