Adam Sharr, Stephen Thornton

Demolishing Whitehall (eBook, ePUB)

Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the Architecture of White Heat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about a lost world - albeit one less than 50 years old. In the era of Harold Wilson's 'white heat', architect Sir Leslie Martin proposed a grand plan to demolish and rebuild a swathe of historic Whitehall, London's government district. At once optimistic and paternalistic, it simultaneously reinforced and challenged a rigidly hierarchical social order at the scales of building, city and nation. This project was never realized, but nevertheless, the plans and the political history surrounding them offer unique insights into Wilson's government, Wilson's Britain and Martin's distinctive scientific model of architecture, and more broadly into the connections between architecture, politics and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351945257
• Artikelnr.: 49364972

Autorenporträt

Adam Sharr is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK and editor of the journal Architectural Research Quarterly. Stephen Thornton is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
A hope of better times and more spacious days
Components of a plan
Leslie Martin and the science of architectural form
Lost in a vortex
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.