1st Edition
Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture
By Deborah Lewittes
Copyright 2018
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called ‘revolutionary’. Three years later, Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II felt very different, and the sense that the ideals of modernism had been abandoned seemed hard to dispute. Had modern architecture failed to take root... Read more
Introduction: Just the Highpoints: London in the Thirties 1. Building Highgate: High Rises and Uprisings 2. London Calling: High Stakes, High Relief 3. High Modernist Critiques 4. Practicing Jews: Modern London, the Emigration Decade, and the Weight of History
Biography
Deborah Lewittes is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the City University of New York, USA. She has been a research fellow at the Courtauld Institute, London, UK, and Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, and was a Lecturer at the Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, USA.
