Building a Better Tomorrow. Architecture in Britain in the 1950s

Elwall, Robert

ISBN 10: 0471987077 / ISBN 13: 9780471987079

Editore: Wiley-Academy, Chichester, 2000

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128 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Minor wear, unmarked. [823] Size: 280mm. X 215mm.

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• Titolo: Building a Better Tomorrow. Architecture in Britain in the 1950s
• Editore: Wiley-Academy, Chichester
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471987077
• ISBN 13: 9780471987079
• Rilegatura: Card Covers
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Architecture

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Riassunto

This book provides an introductory overview to a period which is now being increasingly studied, and in which there is burgeoning interest. Although the book is primarily visual, photographs have been chosen according to how well they illustrate the important buildings and themes of the period.

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert Elwall read history at Trinity College, Oxford, and is now Photographs Curator of the British Architectural Library, RIBA. He has curated several architectural and photographic exhibitions including Unlocking the Thirties (1979) and Pavilions Near and Far (1992), as well as Bricks and Beer (1983) and Photography Takes Command: The Camera and British Architecture 1890-1939 (1994) for both of which he wrote the accompanying books. He is the author of Ern? Goldfinger (1996), also published by Academy in the RIBA Drawings Monographs series, has published numerous articles on architecture and photography, and edited the CD-ROM Architecture & Design Illustrated (1997).