Space, Hope and Brutalism: English architecture 1945-1975 ELAIN HARWOOD(YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 736 PP, £60)Tablet bookshop price £54• Tel 01420 592974
I have spent much of my life in mid-twentieth-century buildings. I went to school in a 1960s building, attended special events in a Victorian city hall damaged in the war and beautifully rebuilt in the 1950s, and worshipped in churches built in the Sixties and Seventies. I did my shopping in a city centre rebuilt after wartime devastation and I borrowed books from post-war libraries. I left home through a modernist station to arrive at university, where I stayed in 1960s’ halls of residence and studied in a Basil Spence library; now I teach on the concrete campus of a new university. The architecture of the welfare s
28 January 2016, The Tablet
Speaking up for the concrete jungle
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