the making of modern housing Mark Swenarton creator Frampton, Kenneth. Writer of foreword Martin, Charles L. text xxu monographic eng

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327 p. ill. ;col. ;maps. ;plans. ; 27 cm. The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes - which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane - set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time, including Neave Brown, Benson & Forsyth and Peter Tabori, and also commissioned up-and-coming practices such as Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. 00The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context. Mark Swenarton ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; photography by Tim Crocker and Martin Charles. Include index Include Bibliography Architecture Domestic History 20th Century England London Row houses History 20th Century England London London, England Buildings, structures, etc NA7332 S94 2017 728.3120942142 9781848222045 1848222041 pucpr 180410 20220519203428.0 eng