 UK £17.95 US $39.95 Paperback 240 pages 250 illustrations, 220 in colour, 75 plans 28 x 24 cm (11.25 x 9.5 in) ISBN: 978-1-8589-4405-0 | Modern The Modern Movement in Britain Alan Powers Modern is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published. Shortlisted for the RIBA Bookshops International Book Award of 2005, this critically acclaimed publication is now available in paperback for the first time. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, it covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Maxwell Fry, Ernö Goldfinger, Berthold Lubetkin and others who changed the vocabulary of architecture in Britain between the wars. Specially commissioned photographs document all the major surviving buildings, from private houses and apartment blocks to schools and factories.
The definitive guide to Modern Movement architecture in Britain Beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated with more than 200 specially commissioned photographs An essential reference for anyone interested in twentieth-century architecture and culture   amazon: UK · USA · Canada · France · Germany · Japan Barnes & Noble · Waterstones · bookdepository.co.uk 
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Author Profiles Alan Powers, one of the UK’s leading architectural historians, with a particular interest in the Modern Movement, has published widely on all aspects of twentieth-century architecture and design. He teaches at the University of Greenwich, London. Morley von Sternberg, a qualified architect, is one of the leading architectural photographers working in Britain today. He works regularly for magazines and newspapers, from Building Design to the Sunday Times, and receives frequent commissions from many of the country’s leading architectural practices. | ||
Reviews Alan Power’s new bible of the era Innovative, hugely informative and bursting with life, this is a must-have book for any fan of the Modern Movement A beautiful book … packed with ideas, elegantly written and with broad appeal Glamourous and enticing | ||
Featured Architects Norah Aiton and Elizabeth (Betty) Scott Sir Ove Arup Geoffrey Bazeley Elisabeth Benjamin Margaret Justin Blanco White Marcel Breuer Michael J.H. and Charlotte Bunney Burnet, Tait & Lorne N.F. Cachemaille-Day H.T. Cadbury-Brown George Checkley Serge Chermayeff Denis Clarke Hall Wells Coates George Coles Connell, Ward & Lucas Dora Cosens William Crabtree Mary Crowley Joseph Emberton Frederick Etchells Rudolf Frankel Edwin Maxwell Fry Frederick Gibberd Ernö Goldfinger H.S. Goodhart-Rendel Dora Gordine Walter Gropius Patrick Gwynne P.J.B. Harland
Oliver Hill Hoar, Marlow & Lovett Charles Holden Geoffrey Jellicoe R.W.H. Jones Vladimir Karfik William Kininmonth Denys Lasdun Frank Latham William Lescaze Berthold Lubetkin J. Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight Raymond McGrath Erich Mendelsohn Peter Moro Raymond Myerscough-Walker Christopher Nicholson William A. Pite David Playdell-Bouverie John Proctor W.H. Robinson Fritz A. Ruhemann Rudolf Otto Salvisberg Samuel & Harding Marshall Sisson Tayler & Green Harry Weedon Sir Owen Williams F.R.S. Yorke | ||
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