Peter Moro and Partners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peter Moro and Partners write by Alistair Fair. This book was released on 2021-08-15. Peter Moro and Partners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Moro is the forgotten co-designer of the Royal Festival Hall. A German émigré who had worked with Berthold Lubetkin’s famed practice, Tecton, in the 1930s, Moro was drafted in to help realise the Festival Hall in just two short years, in time for the Festival of Britain in 1951. With a team of his former students, he created many of the interiors we see today. For Moro, the Festival Hall was a stepping-stone to a career designing many of Britain’s finest post-war theatres, particularly Nottingham Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal, and the renovated Bristol Old Vic. He and his colleagues also designed some exceptional one-off houses, as well as exhibitions, university buildings, schools, and council housing, collaborating with leading talents such as the designer Robin Day. Based on detailed archival research and with stunning new photography, this is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Moro and his colleagues in architectural practice. Ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s, it explores Moro’s belief in a rigorous modern architecture which was both functionally sound and aesthetically rich. It sheds new light on this important body of work, and enriches our understanding of the experience and diversity of modernism in Britain.
Modern Playhouses
Modern Playhouses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Playhouses write by Alistair Fair. This book was released on 2018. Modern Playhouses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern Playhouses is the first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building which took place in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on a vast range of archival material--much of which had never previously been studied by historians--it sets architecture in a wide social and cultural context, presenting the history of post-war theatre buildings as a history of ideas relating not only to performance but also to culture, citizenship, and the modern city. During this period, more than sixty major new theatres were constructed in locations from Plymouth to Inverness, Aberystwyth to Ipswich. The most prominent example was the National Theatre in London, but the National was only the tip of the iceberg. Supported in many cases by public subsidies, these buildings represented a new kind of theatre, conceived as a public service. Theatre was ascribed a transformative role, serving as a form of "productive" recreation at a time of increasing affluence and leisure. New theatres also contributed to debates about civic pride, urbanity, and community. Ultimately, theatre could be understood as a vehicle for the creation of modern citizens in a consciously modernizing Britain. Through their planning and appearance, new buildings were thought to connote new ideas of theatre's purpose. In parallel, new approaches to staging and writing posed new demands of the auditorium and stage. Yet while recognizing, as contemporaries did, that the new theatres of the post war decades represented change, Modern Playhouses also asks how radically different these buildings really were, and what their 'mainstream' architecture reveals of the history of modern British architecture, and of post-war Britain.
Showing resistance
Showing resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Showing resistance write by Harriet Atkinson. This book was released on 2024-07-23. Showing resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were taken up by activists and politicians from 1933 to 1953, becoming manifestos, weapons of war and a means of signalling political solidarities. Drawing on dozens of examples mounted in empty shops, workers’ canteens, station ticket halls and beyond, this richly illustrated book shows how this overlooked form was created by significant makers including artists Paul Nash, John Heartfield and Oskar Kokoschka, architect Erno Goldfinger and photographer Edith Tudor-Hart. Showing resistance is the first study of exhibitions as communications in mid-twentieth century Britain.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals write by Avery Library. This book was released on 1973. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.
Project Partnering
Project Partnering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Project Partnering write by R. Baden Hellard. This book was released on 1995. Project Partnering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Partnering" is a construction procurement method which aims to eliminate adversarial relations by removing the traditional barriers between client and contractor. This book is suitable for all involved in the commissioning of construction projects.
