Demolishing Whitehall
Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat. by Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton
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ISBN-13:
9781138277175
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.11.2016
Seiten:
328
Autor:
Adam Sharr
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
244x170x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book is about a lost world - albeit one less than 50 years old. In the era of Harold Wilson's 'white heat', architect Sir Leslie Martin proposed a grand plan to demolish and rebuild a swathe of historic Whitehall, London's government district. At once optimistic and paternalistic, it simultaneously reinforced and challenged a rigidly hierarchical social order at the scales of building, city and nation. This project was never realized, but nevertheless, the plans and the political history surrounding them offer unique insights into Wilson's government, Wilson's Britain and Martin's distinctive scientific model of architecture, and more broadly into the connections between architecture, politics and society.
Contents: Introduction; A hope of better times and more spacious days; Components of a plan; Leslie Martin and the science of architectural form; Lost in a vortex; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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