Tower block : modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

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Tower block : modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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After World War II, the most urgent reconstruction problem in these islands was in the field of public housing, and the opportunity presented itself to create innovative buildings and to finally abolish slums. Everyone, including the slum-dwellers, united behind the plan to build new dwellings as quickly as possible. In this book Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius tell the story of a great adventure of building and explain the architectural and political ideas that lay behind it. The authors tell how high-rise blocks - buildings in a modernist design that promised to address scientific and social needs with unprecedented precision - were constructed in almost every urban area. They explain that architects and planners working for a few "progressive" local authorities were the first to create the new housing patterns, and that powerful local politicians determined to "give the people homes" later encouraged widespread large-scale implementation of these patterns. The authors discuss where the buildings were built and why they looked as they did, describing various designs, construction methods, and community layouts through the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous illustrations and plans complement the text. This book - with its interweaving of architecture and politics, theory and practice, and local and national issues - will interest not only architects and historians of the postwar era but also readers interested in the growth of the Welfare State. The book includes a gazetteer of significant housing developments in Britain that is arranged by regions.

目次

  • Section 1 Design: Part A - The Modern Dwelling - Plan, Fittings, Construction - 1 The Search for the New
  • 2 Inside the Dwelling - Size, Plan, Fittings, Heating
  • 3 Need and Fit
  • 4 The Case for Flats and Maisonettes
  • 5 Mixed Development
  • 6 Daylight and Densities
  • 7 Multi-Storey Architecture in the 1950s
  • 8 Very High Blocks
  • 9 Services Outside the Flat and Access
  • 10 New Construction
  • 11 New Construction and Appearance. Part B - Community Life - A Postwar Architectural Stimulus - 12 A Welfare State Utopia
  • 13 Town Planning
  • 14 The Sociology of Community
  • 15 The Modern Architect in Public Housing
  • 16 Solving, Architecturally, the Most Difficult of Social Problems
  • 17 New Socio-Architectural Catchwords
  • 18 The Smithsons - Association and Communication
  • 19 Infinite Possibilities of Design in the 1960s. Section II Production: Part A - A Municipal Crusade - Modern Flats and the Defence of Housing Production in Britain
  • 20 The Land Trap
  • 21 Central Government, Local Government and Housing Production in 1950s
  • 22 Quantity or Quality? Defeat of the Designers
  • 23 Financing and Organising the 1960s Housing Drive
  • 24 Package Dealers and Negotiators. Part B - Scottish, English and Welsh Housing in the Sixties - 25 Give the People Homes! Scotland's Housing Blitzkrieg
  • 26 The Curate's Egg
  • 27 Break-up of an Empire - Reorganization in London. Part C - Northern Irelands Housing Revolution 28 The Pursuit of Parity
  • 29 The Great Leap Forward. Section III - Breakdown 30 The Rejection of Modern Design
  • 31 End of the Drive
  • 32 New Slums'
  • 33 Conclusion - Utopia on Trial?. Appendix: High Flats in the Channel Islands.

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