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COOK'S CAMDEN
THE MAKING OF MODERN HOUSING |
By: |
Mark Swenarton |
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Hardback |
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£55.00 |
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£46.75 |
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£8.25 |
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ISBN 10: |
1848222041 |
ISBN 13: |
9781848222045 |
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LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 2017 |
Pages: |
328 |
Description: |
In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. In place of tower blocks, they created a high-density, low-rise urbanism, based on a return to streets with front doors. This book examinesthis programme and shows how it offers important lessons and insights for thedesign of collective housing today. |
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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. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time and the schemes - which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane - set out a model of housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day.The 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.This book examines how Cook and his team created this new kind of housing, what it comprised, and what lessons it offers for today. New colour photographs combine with original black and white photography to give a fascinating 'then and now' portrayal not just of the buildings but also of the homes within and the people who live there. |
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124 colour and 114 b&w illustrations; 238 Illustrations, unspecified |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
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