Building the New Jerusalem
Architecture, Housing and Politics 1900-1930 (EP 82)
Format:Hardback
Publisher:IHS BRE Press
Published:1st Dec '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
" The first account based on primary historical research of the relationship between architecture, housing and social democracy in Britain and Europe in this key formative period.
Makes available to a wide readership essays written over the past 30 years which are not otherwise easily accessible
The author is one of the leading historians of British housing
The accompanying CD contains key housing and design texts from the period, including government reports such as the Tudor Walters Report which are available only in a handful of libraries, as well as unique documents such as RB White‘s hitherto unpublished history of the BRS"
"""This fascinating study of the growth of social housing is a racy tale of politics, war and fierce debate. ... The essays in the book are well-written pieces of original research, as you might expect from Swenarton...Building the New Jerusalem gives great insight into the realpolitik of solving both social and construction problems. And the vision of the title, sometimes buried amid reports and letters, shines through when you start looking at the plans in the book and on CD."" RIBA Journal
""This superbly-researched book challenges the conventional history of modern architecture by putting Britain‘s garden-city and social housing movements at its origins. Swenarton not only establishes a more inclusive genealogy of modernism; he illuminates a living tradition of human-scaled, socially-conscious architecture that is all-the-more vital today."" Robert Fishman, University of Michigan"
ISBN: 9781848060241
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 762g
246 pages