Post-War Architecture Booklilst

This reading is intended to offer an example of what is available as is arranged by time period. A paper copy will be provided with your course documents. Place of publication is unless stated otherwise. I have included many books that are out of print but which should be available through libraries, and hopefully nothing that is wilfully obscure. Pre-1914 (predominantly) Alan Crawford, By Hammer and Hand, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1984 Peter Davey, Arts and Crafts Architecture, Phaidon, 1995 A Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, Duckworth, 1985 David Ottewill, The Edwardian Garden, Yale, 1989 Margaret Richardson, Architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Trefoil, 1983 Gavin Stamp and André Goulancourt, The English House, Faber 1986 Inter-war Architecture (predominantly) Thirties, Arts Council, 1979 Charlotte Benton, A Different World: Émigré Architects in Britain 1928-1958, RIBA, 1995 Elizabeth Darling, Re-Forming Britain, Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction, Routledge, 2007 Lord Esher et al, Recent English Architecture 1920-1940, Country Life, 1947 Alastair Forsyth, Buildings for the Age, New building types 1900-1939, RCHM, 1982 John R. Gold, The Experience of Modernism, Modern Architects and the Future City 1928-1953, E and FN Spon, 1997 Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities, Secker and Warburg, 1940. I include this as it was what the architects themselves were reading in the war. Alan Powers, Modern, the Modern Movement in Britain, Merrell, 2005 Dennis Sharp, and Expressionism, Longmans, 1966 Joseph Sharples, Charles Reilly and the School of Architecture, Liverpool University Press, 1996 (background to many of the leading public sector architects of the post-war period) Sam Smiles, ed., Going Modern and Being British, Architecture and Design in Devon c.1910-1960, Intellect, 1998 – a regional study. Gavin Stamp ed., Britain in the Thirties, Architectural Design Profiles, no.24, 1979 – still the key work. Ken Worpole, Here Comes the Sun, Architecture of Public Space in Twentieth Century European Culture, Reaktion, 2000 – not specifically British, but the most thoughtful thing on modern/deco/seaside architecture. Post-war Architecture There are a lot of contemporary collections of photos with short texts, all of which are useful. Note especially, in date order: Edward D. Mills, The New Architecture in Great Britain, Standard Catalogue Co, 1953 Trevor Dannatt, Modern Architecture in Britain, Batsford, 1959 (widely available second hand) Michael Webb, Architecture in Britain Today, Country Life, 1969 (annoying for its lack of dates) 1

Robert Maxwell, New British Architecture, Thames and Hudson, 1972 Noel Moffett, The Best of British Architecture 1980 to 2000, London E. & F. N. Spon, 1993 Harriet Atkinson, The , a land and its people, Tauris, 2012 Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism, Architectural Press, 1966 Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, Architectural Press, 1968 Reyner Banham, Megastructure, Thames and Hudson, 1976 Nicholas Bullock, Building the Post-War World, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain, 2002 Louise Campbell, ed., Twentieth-Century Architecture and its Histories, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2000 Susannah Charlton, ed., 100 Buildings, 100 Years, Batsford/ C20, 2014 Wayne D. Cocroft and Roger J. C. Thomas, Cold War, Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946- 1989, Swindon, English Heritage, 2003 Muriel Emmanuel, ed., Contemporary Architects, Macmillan, 1984 (various editions, a useful dictionary of C20 architects) Lionel Esher, A Broken Wave, The Rebuilding of 1940-1980, Allen Lane 1981 Murray Fraser with Joe Kerr, Architecture and the ‘Special Relationship’, the American Influence on Post-War British Architecture, Routledge, 2007 Miles Glendinning, ed., Rebuilding Scotland, the postwar vision 1945-1975, Tuckwell Press, 1997 John R. Gold, The Practice of Modernism, Modern architects and urban transformation, 1954-1972, Routledge, 2007 (useful background but use with caution because of its value judgements) John Grindrod, Concretopia, a Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, Brecon, Old Street, 2013. Journalism, but largely pretty accurate Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, eds., The Sixties, Twentieth Century Society, 2002 Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, eds, The Seventies, Twentieth Century Society, 2013 Elain Harwood, England, a Guide to Post-War Architecture, Batsford 2003 – new edition with James O. Davies coming in August 2015 Elain Harwood, Space, Hope and Brutalism, English Architecture 1945-75, Yale, August 2015 – that’s the new date of publication and most likely Owen Hatherley, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso, 2010. I put this in as it’s done more than most to reinvigorate interest in post-war architecture, but it must be read with great caution as there are many inaccuracies. Lesley Jackson, Contemporary, Phaidon, 1994 (better on design than architecture but gives a good overall flavour of the 1950s) Lesley Jackson, The Sixties, Phaidon, 1998 (the less successful follow up is useful for its discussion of The Look) Charles Jencks, Architecture 2000, Predictions and Methods, Studio Vista, 1971 (Jencks before he got into postmodernism) Charles Jencks ed., Post-Modern Triumphs in London, Academy Editions, 1991 Sutherland Lyall, The State of British Architecture, Architectural Press, 1980 Byron Mikellides, Architecture for People, Studio Vista, 1980 (articles by architects offering a gentler modernism at a time when the style was out of favour) Alan Powers, Britain, Reaktion Books, 2007 – covers the whole century Max Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel (eds.), Team 10, in Search of a Utopia of the Present, NAi, Rotterdam (not exclusively on English architecture but places many difficult themes in context), 2005 Andrew Saint, Architect and Engineer, a study in sibling rivalry, Yale, 2007 (covers C18 and C19 too) Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1966 – the origins of postmodernism. Zodiac, no.18, Milan 1968 – now this is obscure, but a comprehensive overview of British architecture by an Italian magazine (dual language) 2

Building Types

Planning Gordon E. Cherry, Town Planning in Britain since 1900, Blackwell, 1996 Colin Buchanan, Mixed Blessing, the Motor in Britain, Leonard Hill, 1958 Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, HMSO, 1963 Michael Hebbert, London, Wiley, 1998 (rather simplistic now, but a useful introduction to London planning) John Holliday, ed., City Centre Redevelopment, Charles Knight, 1973

Mass Housing and New Towns John Burnett, A Social History of Housing, 1815-1985, Methuen, 1986 Garden Cities and New Towns, Lavenham, Hertfordshire Publications, 1990 Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius, Tower Block, Yale, 1994 Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, eds., Housing the Twentieth Century Nation, C20 Society, 2009 David Heathcote, Barbican, Penthouse over the City, Chichester, John Wiley, 2004 Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Homes for Today and Tomorrow (the Parker Morris Report), HMSO, 1961 (Department of the Environment, 1972) Frederic J. Osborn and Arnold Whittick, The New Towns, Leonard Hill, various editions Alan Powers, Robin Hood Gardens, Re-Visions, C20 Society, 2010 Alison Ravetz, Council Housing and Culture, the history of a social experiment, Routledge, 2001 Greg Stevenson, Palaces for the People, Prefabs in Post-War Britain, Batsford, 2003 Colin Ward, New Town, Home Town, the Lessons of Experience, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1993

Entertainment Frederick Bentham, New Theatres in Britain, Tabs/Strand Electric 1970 Simon Inglis, Played in Britain – all titles in the series have post-war content David Lawrence, Food on the Move, the extraordinary world of the motorway service area, between books with Donlan Books, 2010 Ronnie Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, Making Space for Theatre, British Architecture and Theatre since 1958, Mulryne and Shewring (Stratford) 1995 John McKean, Royal Festival Hall, Phaidon, 1992 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture, Lund Humphries, 1996 Janet Smith, Liquid Assets, the Lidos and Open Air Swimming Pools of Britain, English Heritage, 2006

Public Buildings, Commercial and Industrial Alistair Black, The Public Library in Britain, 1914-2000, British Library, 2000 Francis Duffy (edited by Patrick Hannay), The Changing Workplace, Phaidon, 1992 Oliver Marriott, The Property Boom, Hamish Hamilton, 1968 Kathryn Morrison, English Shops and Shopping, Yale, 2003 Victoria Perry, The Brynmawr Rubber Factory, , White Cockade, 1994 Michael Rosenauer, Modern Office Buildings, Batsford, 1955 Twentieth Century Society, Industrial Architecture, 1992 Chris Wilkinson, Supersheds, Oxford, Butterworth, 1996

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Churches Fifty Modern Churches, Incorporated Church Building Society, 1947 – the most widely available of photo collections of inter-war churches Sixty Post-War Churches, Incorporated Church Building Society, 1956 Louise Campbell, Cathedral, Art and Architecture in Post-War Britain, Oxford University Press, 1996 Frederick Gibberd, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, Architectural Press, 1968 Peter Hammond, Liturgy and Architecture, Barrie and Rockcliffe, 1960 Twentieth Century Society, The Twentieth Century Church, 1997 Robert Proctor, Building the Modern Church, Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain 1955 to 1975, , Ashgate, 2014 Michael Yelton and John Salmon, Anglican Church Building in London, 1946-2012, Reading, Spire, 2013. A gazetteer of Greater London with some thoughtless value judgements.

Education Tony Birks and Michael Holford, Building the New Universities, Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1972 Peter Dormer and Stefan Muthesius, Concrete and Open Skies, Architecture and the University of East Anglia, 2000, Unicorn Press, 2001 A. Peter Fawcett and Neil Jackson, Campus Critique, The Architecture of the , 1997 Mark Goldie, Corbusier Comes to Cambridge, Post-war architecture and the competition to build Churchill College, Stuart Maclure, Educational Development and School Building: Aspects of Public Policy 1945- 1973, Longman, 1984 William Mullins and Phyllis Allen, Student Housing, Architectural and Social Aspects, Crosby Lockwood, 1971 Stefan Muthesius, The Post-war University, Utopianist Campus and College, Yale, 2000 Andrew Saint, Towards a Social Architecture, Yale, 1987 Malcolm Seaborne and Roy Lowe, The English School, its Architecture and Organisation, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977 Richard Weston, Schools of Thought, Hampshire County Council, 1991

Leicester University Engineering Building and its architects John McKean, University Engineering Building, London, Phaidon, 1994 – the best introduction to the building Alan Berman, ed., Jim and the Red Trilogy, three radical buildings, Frances Lincoln, 2010 Mark Crinson, Stirling and Gowan, Architecture from Austerity to Affluence, Yale, 2012; the best book on the firm David Dunster, James Gowan, Academy Editions, 1978 Ellis Woodman, Modernity and Reinvention, The architecture of James Gowan, Black Dog, 2008 (disappointing, but reviews the later buildings)

Private Houses Richard Einzig, Classic Modern Houses in Europe, Architectural Press, 1981 Neil Jackson, The Modern Steel House, E. and F. N. Spon, 1996 (also covers the United States and Australia) Miranda H. Newton, Architects’ London Houses, Butterworth, 1992 Alan Powers, The Twentieth Century House in Britain, Country Life / Aurum, 2004 Twentieth Century Society, The Modern House Revisited, 1995 Twentieth Century Society, Post-War Houses, 2000 Penelope Whiting, New Houses, Architectural Press, 1964 (there are also lots of period collections of photos and articles on houses by House and Garden, Batsford, and Ideal Home yearbooks) 4

F. R. S. Yorke, The Modern House in England, Architectural Press, 1937, 1944

Transport James Drake, H. l. Yeadon and D. I Evans, Motorways, Faber, 1969 Dorothy Henry and J. A. Jerome, Modern British Bridges, Barking, Applied Sciences Publishers, 1965 Julian Holder and Steven Parissien, eds., The Architecture of British Transport in the Twentieth Century, Yale, 2004 Kathryn Morrison and John Minnis, Carscapes, the Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England, Yale, 2012

Art in Buildings Margaret Garlake, New Art New World, British art in postwar society, Yale, 1998 Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, eds., The Festival of Britain, Twentieth Century Architecture no.5, Twentieth Century Society, 2001 Pubic Monuments and Sculpture Association Recording Project – many volumes Public Sculpture of… that for Leicestershire and Rutland by Terry Cavanagh and Alison Yarrington is particularly strong in post-war examples. Eugene Rosenberg and Richard Cork, Architect’s Choice, Art in Architecture in Great Britain since 1945, Thames and Hudson, 1992

Monographs (in alphabetical order by subject) Kenneth Powell, Ahrends, Burton & Koralek, RIBA, 2012 Alan Powers, Aldington, Craig and Collinge, RIBA, 2009 Peter Cook et al, Archigram, Studio Vista, 1972; reprint Basle, Birkhäuser, 1991 Simon Sadler, Archigram, Architecture without Architecture, Cambridge, MIT, 2005 Peter Jones, , Masterbuilder of the twentieth century, Yale, 2006 Michael Brawne, Arup Associates, Lund Humphries, 1983 – the best book on the early work of the firm, but really Dowson’s spin on the firm. Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Robert Atkinson, Architectural Association, 1989 Elain Harwood, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, RIBA, 2011 Sherban Cantacuzino, Wells Coates, Gordon Fraser, 1978 Elizabeth Darling, Wells Coates, RIBA, 2012 Alan Powers, Serge Chermayeff, RIBA, 2001 Anthony Symondson and Stephen Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper, Spire, 2006 Kenneth Powell, Edward Cullinan, Academy Editions, 1995 Trevor Dannatt: Buildings and Interiors 1951-72, Lund Humphries, 1972 Roger Stonehouse, Trevor Dannatt, Works and words, Black Dog, 2008 Lesley Jackson, Robin and Lucienne Day, Pioneers of contemporary design, Mitchell Beazley, 2001 Ian Latham and Mark Swenarton, ed., Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, Buildings and Projects 1959-2002, Rightangle, 2002 Anthony Symondson, Stephen Dykes Bower, RIBA, 2011 Lucy Archer, Raymond Erith, Cygnet Press (Burford), 1985 Peter Collymore, The Architecture of Ralph Erskine, Academy Editions, 1994 Norman Foster, Works 1, Prestel, 2002 Johnny Rodger, ed., Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, , RIAS, 2007 Gavin Stamp and James Dunnett, Ernö Goldfinger, Architectural Association 1982 Nigel Warburton, Ernö Goldfinger – the life of an architect, Routledge, 2004 Architecture of the Gollins Melvin Ward Partnership, Lund Humphries, 1974 Alan Powers, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, Architectural Association, 1987 Colin Amery, ed., Architecture, Industry and Innovation, the Early Work of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Phaidon, 1995 Alan Powers, Oliver Hill, Architect and Lover of Life 1887-1968, Mouton, 1989 5

Colin Davies, Hopkins 1, the work of Michael Hopkins and Partners, Phaidon, 1993 Sherban Cantacuzino Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis, Lund Humphries, 1981 John Martin Robinson and David Neave, Francis Johnson Architect, a classical statement, Otley, Oblong, 2001 A Language and a Theme, the Architecture of and Partners, RIBA, 1976 William Curtis, Denys Lasdun, Architecture, City, Landscape, Phaidon, 1993 John Allan, , RIBA, 1992 Lutyens, Arts Council 1981 Edward Denison, McMorran & Whitby, RIBA, 2009 Alan Clawley, John Madin, RIBA, 2011 Gerald Adler, Robert Maguire & Keith Murray, RIBA, 2012 Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Leonard Manasseh and Partners, RIBA, 2011 Miles Glendinning, Modern Architect, the life and times of , RIBA, 2008 Gillian Darley and David McKie, Ian Nairn, Words in Place, Nottingham, Five Leaves, 2013 (a biography of the leading journalist and campaigner of the post-war time) Peter Pace, The Architecture of George Pace, Batsford, 1990 Alan Powers, Francis Pollen, Oxford, Robert Dugdale, 1999 Kenneth Powell, Powell & Moya, RIBA, 2009 Simon Houfe, Alan Powers and John Wilton-Ely, Sir , RIBA, 1999 Bryan Appleyard, Richard Rogers, Faber and Faber, 1986 (if you want a fun read, this is it) Kenneth Powell, Richard Rogers Complete Works, vol.1, Phaidon, 1999 Rutter Carroll, Ryder and Yates, RIBA, 2009 John McKean, Learning from Segal: Walter Segal’s Life, Work and Influence, , Birkhäuser, 1989 Sheppard Robson: Architects, Lund Humphries, 1983 Harley Sherlock, An Architect in Islington, Islington Society, 2006 (autobiography of a 1960s-80s housing practice) Alison and Peter Smithson, The Shift, Academy Editions, 1982 (the most accessible and available of their earlier publications and the one they rated themselves) Alison and Peter Smithson, The Charged Void: Architecture, Monacelli (New York), 2002 (the most comprehensive of their many books on themselves) Brian Edwards, , Rutland () 1995 (mainly on Scottish work) Philip Long and Jane Thomas, Basil Spence, Architect, Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, 2007 Louise Campbell, Miles Glendinning and Jane Thomas, eds., Basil Spence, Buildings and Projects, RIBA, 2012 – a mixed collection of essays but the gazetteer is particularly useful Mark Girouard, Big Jim, The Life and Work of James Stirling, Chatto and Windus 1998 Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, Tayler and Green, the Spirit of Place in Modern Housing, Prince of Institute, 1998 Wendy Hitchmough, C F A Voysey, Phaidon, 1995 David Cottam, Sir Owen Williams, Architectural Association, 1986 Sarah Menin and Stephen Kite, An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 Alan Powers, In the Line of Development, Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall to YRM, RIBA 1992 Jeremy Melvin, F. R. S. Yorke and the Evolution of English Modernism, Chichester, Wiley Academy, 2003

Technical issues Peter Collins, Concrete, The Vision of a New Architecture, Faber, 1959 English Heritage Practical Building Conservation: Concrete, Farnham, Ashgate, 2012 Susan Macdonald, ed., Modern Matters, English Heritage/ Donhead 1996 6

Susan Macdonald, ed., Preserving Post-War Heritage, English Heritage/ Donhead, 2001 Arthur Quarmby, The Plastics Architect, Pall Mall, 1974, published in America as Plastics and Architecture, Washington, Praeger, 1974 R. B. White, Prefabrication, HMSO, 1965 (this is rare but the key book)

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