Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350152977
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9781350152960
Content:
"Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. This volume reveals how the architectural developments of this period not only provided important foundations for what happened after 1945 - they are also of real significance in their own right. Sixteen essays written by leading and emerging scholars bring together new and diverse approaches to the period - a period of reconstruction, fraught with the challenges of modernity and democratisation. The collection considers the complex effects of reconstruction on design, discourse, practice, and professionalism, and deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, and makes important postcolonial interventions into the architectural history of British Imperialism at home and in its far reaches; in Cairo, South Africa, Australia, and India."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword / Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes University, UK) -- Introduction / Neal Shasore (University of Liverpool, UK) and Jessica Kelly (University for the Creative Arts, UK) -- Part One: The Public Realm. 1. Public Space, Recovery and Community in the Aftermath of the First World War / Ben Roberts (Teeside University, UK) ; 2. Democratisation, Reconstruction and Criticism: The Architectural Press 1921-1927 / Jessica Kelly (University for the Creative Arts London, UK) ; 3. 'Last orders'? Re-designing the British Pub, the Control of Alcohol, and Spectre of Prohibition / Julian Holder ; 4. Dance Halls and the Democratization of Pleasure after the First World War / James Nott (University of St Andrews, UK) -- Part Two: Governance and the City. 5. 'The New London' / Eileen Chanin (Australian National University, Australia) ; 6. Rhodes House, Oxford, and the Architecture of Memory / Geoffrey Tyack (University of Oxford, UK) ; 7. WW1, Dyarchy and the Design of Interwar New Delhi / Smriti Pant (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) ; 8. Redrawing the Democratic State: The Interwar Architecture of Percy Thomas / Robert Proctor (University of Bath, UK) -- Part Three: Religion and Community. 9. Innovation in the Design of Anglican Cathedrals / David Lewis (Independent Scholar) ; 10. The Emancipation of Church Design after the First World War / Clare Price (University of Oxford, UK) ; 11. Creating Communities: Annabel Dott and Rural Reconstruction / Elizabeth McKellar (Open University, UK) -- Part Four: Political Economy, Practice and Professionalism. 12. 'We cannot build for the poorest': Private Enterprise, Public Utility Societies, and the Addison Act / Calum White (University of Oxford, UK) ; 13. Why the Tables Never Quite Turned: the Fate of the American Professional Service Firm in Architecture in England / Horatio Joyce (University of Oxford, UK) ; 14. Building for Business, Profit, and Prestige: Speculative Offices after the First World War / Jonathan Clarke (University of Cambridge, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350283923
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350152946
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350283923
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350152977
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