Architecture
Britain: Modern Architectures...
Architecture
Alan Powers is an architectural historian with a passion for the underdog and the unusual. His latest tome tackles that unnecessarily thorny old subject; the relationship between the British and modern architecture. Powers is out to undermine the established view that the British were cowed by contemporary design, stifling outcrops of innovation swiftly with their reactionary national character.
Books like Anthony Jackson's The Politics of Modern Architecture presented the modernist as a lone purveyor of an essential truth, struggling against ignorance on all sides. Powers takes us on an entertaining and informative journey through the twentieth century, but concludes that ultimately our expectations for modern architecture have always been too high, and disappointment has been the inevitable result.
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Britain: Modern Architectures in History by Alan Powers (Reaktion, £16.96)
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