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Percy
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- ISBN 9781837722105
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. His architectural practice, Sir Percy Thomas & Son, designed much of the post-1945 welfare state and industry in Wales and beyond. In the late twentieth century, the Percy Thomas Partnership specialised in complex healthcare, industrial and public buildings, becoming an international practice.
This comprehensive, meticulously-researched history examines the architecture of Percy Thomas in depth for the first time, and explores its wider social and political significance. Arguing that the practice sustained an ethical approach to architecture as a ‘national service’ for the benefit of society, this book gives new insights into the role of the architect and the changing relationships between the built environment and the state throughout the century. Its unique perspective from Wales promises to reshape our understanding of modern architecture.
Robert Proctor is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History & Theory at the University of Bath, and is an expert on twentieth-century British architecture.
