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Hardcover. Condizione: Gut. 2. 200 S. Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, innen alles in Ordnung. D251215axh26 ISBN: 9783724310198 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2118.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. (London: Air Ministry Directorate of Educational Services, 1944). Large folio-size coloured pictorial boards. Complete. Sheets 1-20. A spectacular set of designs by the Hungarian-born architect Erno Goldfinger and his wife Ursula Blackwell, assisted by Martin Cobbett, with cartoons by Sheila Hawkins and landscaping by Peter Shepheard. They were prepared for exhibitions put on by the Army Bureau of Current Affairs and depict plans for the rebuilding of the East End of London after the war. With pin holes for display in corners. A very good set. NB: Architect Erno Goldfinger played an important part in the development of the modernist movement in Britain, particularly famous for his Brutalist designs, which were often unpopular publicly. 'Planning Your Neighbourhood' is an optimistic presentation of a utopian vision of improved post-war city life. Shoreditch, with slums and heavily damaged in the war, was a perfect candidate for post-war reconstruction. The 20 sheets incorporate maps, aerial photos and diagrams to aid visualisation - the idea was that anyone, young and old across different social classes, would enjoy living in the "vertical city". More than one thousand copies of Planning Your Neighbourhood circulated throughout the country from late 1945 onward. NNB: "It has been written that Ian Fleming took issue with Erno Goldfinger because of his supposed disapproval of the unashamedly modernist house he built at Willow Road in the leafy borough [of Hampstead]. However, there seems to be no evidence of this (nor indeed that Fleming had a any strong views either way on modernist architecture). Fleming would, however, have certainly have disliked Erno Goldfinger's politics and, given the characters of both men, it is difficult to imagine them getting on. But perhaps the real truth is, like his choice of "James Bond", he thought the name "Goldfinger" was just too good not to make into a character" (Michael Duncan: Fleming vs. Goldfinger: what really happened when the architect took on the author). Further photographs available upon request.…

A complete run of the modernist architect Ern Goldfinger's vision for a post-war Britain: 20 display boards produced for the Army Bureau to demonstrate the possibility of replacing the bombed-out slums with rationally planned towns, with separate areas for work, rest, and play, linked by wide roads and pedestrian lanes. The proposal, produced with his wife Ursula Blackwell, focused on the heavily bombed Shoreditch area. The boards contain maps, aerial photomontages, and diagrams visualizing the features of the new community. The emphasis was on how different classes, and both young and old, could live together in a "vertical city". Goldfinger praises the rural village for its social nature, but holds that the modern city crushes this. In his view, the tower block would create neighbourliness. Everyone would be within walking distance to recreation areas and green spaces, without crossing traffic. The brutalist tower block now synonymous with Goldfinger has left him hated by many, who accuse him of replacing (perhaps romanticized) organic communities of Victorian terraces with oppressive, dehumanizing concrete high-rise blocks, towering over polluting roads and too-few social spaces. The villain Goldfinger in the James Bond novels is named after him. He nonetheless retains a select group of admirers, who maintain his ideals could have worked if properly applied (his proposals here for Shoreditch, for example, were never implemented). Complete as run of 20 posters on firm card (each 353 x 487 mm), original pinholes in corners from display. The expected age toning, yet overall in excellent condition, without wear save for tiny nicks at extremities.…