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100 20th-Century Shops
Twentieth Century Society
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A showcase of Britain's most architecturally significant shops
throughout the twentieth century and beyond. 100 20th-Century Shops
is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain’s changing
high street and the diverse architectural styles of the 20th
century. Entries in this book showcase 100 often instantly
recognisable shops from across the country, from throughout the
20th century and stretching into the 21st, capturing the changing
architectural styles of our beloved and rapidly disappearing retail
environment. As the UK's retail landscape faces an existential
crisis, now is an appropriate time to review and celebrate the
architecture of our high streets. From Tudor-revival department
stores and futuristic supermarkets to Art Deco shop fronts and
post-war Festival style markets, the 100 shops featured here evoke
a variety of design styles and traces the history and evolution of
our cherished high street. The book also contains essays by
respected writers Elain Harwood, Lynn Pearson, Matthew Whitfield,
Kathryn A. Morrison and Bronwen Edwards on the design, development
and decline of the high street over the last 100 years within a
social and political context. This compelling book provides a
glimpse into the wonderful shops that Britain has to offer and is a
must-have for all fans of design history, architecture and retail.
A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles throughout the
twentieth century and beyond. This illuminating book is a
fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse
housing styles of the twentieth century. Redesigned and updated in
a brand-new edition, it showcases 100 houses, from throughout the
20th century and stretching into the 21st, that represent the range
of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing
has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by
stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural
critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain
Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Alan Powers and Gillian Darley. From
specially commissioned architect-designed houses for private
individuals to housing built for increased workforces, each of the
100 houses brings a different design style or historical story.
There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached
suburban dwellings, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses,
converted factories and affordable post-war homes. Architectural
styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts and Crafts and
brutalism, and featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott,
Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David
Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the social
and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last
100 years, looking at the impact the world wars had on housing,
exploring domestic technology and building materials and
discovering how the modern house came about. This compelling book
gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing Britain has to offer and
is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
A fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse
housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book
showcases 100 houses - one from each year from 1914 - that
represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years
and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is
accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading
architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp,
Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman and Gillian Darley.
From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for
individuals and for families to housing built for increased
workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style
or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden
cities, semi-detached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses,
almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. The
architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts &
Crafts and brutalist and the featured architects include Giles
Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and
David Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the
social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the
last 100 years, looking at the impact the World Wars had on
housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and
asking how the modern house came about. Whether exploring Grayson
Perry's folly-like House for Essex, Patrick Gwynne's modernist
glass villa in Surrey, Sarah Wigglesworth's Straw Bale House or
Simon Conder's black rubber-clad fisherman's hut in Dungeness, this
book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing in Britain and is a
must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
A showcase of Britain's most extraordinary gardens and landscapes
from the twentieth century to present day. 100 20th-Century Gardens
and Landscapes highlights the evolution of gardens and landscapes
over the past century, tracing how these distinctive creations
complemented buildings of their period. Entries in this book are
grouped in chronological periods, documenting changing styles and
techniques in a visual timeline. The examples chosen take the story
from the Arts and Crafts garden and the garden city, through the
landscapes created for mid-century housing and the new towns, to
the low-maintenance gardens of the 1980s and contemporary trends
for community and wildlife gardens. Designed landscapes were often
integral to the conception of twentieth-century developments; the
inclusion of a handful of particularly successful landscapes for
memorial gardens, offices, industry, transport and parks
demonstrate a changing attitude to public green space during the
century and its increasing importance as private gardens have
become ever smaller. Designers and architects such as Piet Oudolf,
Charles Jencks, Frederick Gibberd, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Vita
Sackville-West and Gertrude Jekyll are all featured, alongside more
detailed essays on the history of gardens, planting styles, the
importance of modern landscapes, and the career of Geoffrey
Jellicoe. The text is written by architectural, landscape and
garden historians including Elain Harwood, Barbara Simms and Alan
Powers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photography,
illustrations and garden plans, this book is ideal for gardeners
and landscape lovers alike.
Following on from 100 Buildings 100 Years and 100 Houses 100 Years,
this book illustrates and describes 100 churches and chapels built
in the UK since 1914, charting the development of buildings for
worship. In this period concrete and steel gave a new freedom to
construction, while new ideas about how congregations could
participate in services changed assumptions about traditional
layouts, bringing celebrants and people closer together. The
century saw dynamic churches in dramatic shapes of all sizes thanks
to ambitious engineering, and brilliant colour from new forms of
stained glass, murals and sculpture. Architects whose work is
included here range from Basil Spence and Edward Maufe, designers
of major cathedrals, to the radical Gillespie, Kidd and Coia whose
brutalist seminary lies abandoned near Dumbarton. The book provides
biographies of major designers; articles on glass, fittings, and on
the synagogues, mosques and temples that play an intrinsic and
important part in worship in Britain today. Contributors include
architectural historians Elain Harwood, Alan Powers and Clare
Price. Beautiful photography throughout showcases the very best of
British church design, whether it is the minimal symmetry of a
timber-framed altar, or light streaming in through a multi-coloured
stained glass panel.
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