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Brutalism
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Hubert De Cronin Hastings
J.M. Richards
Modern Architecture
Nikolaus Pevsner
Peggy Angus
Reyner Banham
The Architectural Review
Vernacular architecture
Product details
- ISBN 9781526143754
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Architecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who finance and live in the buildings. Using the career of the critic J. M. Richards as a lens, this book takes a new perspective on modern architecture. Richards served as editor of The Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, during which time he consistently argued that modernism was integrally linked to vernacular architecture, not through style but through the principle of being an anonymous expression of a time and public spirit. Exploring the continuities in Richards’s ideas throughout his career disrupts the existing canon of architectural history, which has focused on abrupt changes linked to individual ‘pioneers’, encouraging us to think again about who is studied in architectural history and how they are researched.
Jessica Kelly is Reader in Architectural and Design History at the University for the Creative Arts
