1st Edition

The Practice of Modernism Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

By John R. Gold Copyright 2007
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design. Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in... Read more

1. On the Threshold  2. Practising Modernism  3 Private and Public  4. Professions  5. Towards Renewal  6. Heart and Soul  7. Second Generation  8. The Pursuit of Numbers  9. With Social Intent  10. Succession  11. Late-Flowering Modernism  12. Storm Clouds

Biography

John R. Gold is Professor of Urban Geography and a member of the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University UK. The winner of the 1999 Aesop Prize, his main research interests are in the impact of architectural modernism on urban renewal and in the history of urban festivals.