1st Edition

Re-forming Britain Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction

By Elizabeth Darling Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction  Part 1: A New Spirit  1. The Conditions for an Architecture for To-Day  Part 2: Rhetorical Modernism  2. A New Landscape of Health  3. Modern Dwellings for Modern Needs  4. New Homes for Old  5. The Modern Flat  Part 3: Towards a New Britain  6. A Living Contemporary Architecture

Biography

Elizabeth Darling trained as an art and architectural historian at University College London. Since then she has taught, researched and published in the history of 19th and 20th century architecture. She is now a Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University.

'Recommended reading for all those with a serious interest in the development of Modern architecture in Britain.' - Twentieth Century Society Journal

'The book is essential for those studying modernist architectural practice in context. It does for the inter-war period what Andrew Saint’s Towards a Social Architecture and Nicolas Bullock’s Building the Post-War World have done for the post-war period.' - Urban History Review