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In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. This book examines this programme and offers important lessons and insights for the design of collective housing today.
List of contents
Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1:
Introduction; Chapter 2: Sydney Cook at Camden: geared to producing ideas, with
the emphasis on youth; Chapter 3: Developing a new format for urban housing:
Neave Brown and Fleet Road; Chapter 4: Creating a piece of city: Neave Brown at
Alexandra Road; Chapter 5: A city on a hill: Peter Tábori at Highgate New Town;
Chapter 6: Class war in Hampstead: the battle of Branch Hill; Chapter 7: The
poetics of housing: Benson and Forsyth at Branch Hill; Chapter 8: Gospel Oak:
from Powell & Moya to Benson and Forsyth; Chapter 9: Only connect: Benson
and Forsyth at Maiden Lane; Chapter 10: Urban dentistry: Edward Cullinan and
Colquhoun & Miller; Chapter 11: Politics versus architecture: the Alexandra
Road public enquiry of 1978-81; Chapter 12: Conclusion: Cook’s Camden today;
Appendix 1: ‘Sydney Cook as I knew him’: recollections by Neave Brown, Frank
Dobson, John Green, Martin Morton and Peter Tábori; Appendix 2: Neave Brown,
'The form of housing' (1967); Appendix 3: Cook's Camden A-Z; Cook's Camden Map;
Abbreviations; Notes; Index
About the author
Mark Swenarton is an architectural historian, critic and educator. He was founding editor of the international journal Construction History and co-founded and edited the monthly review Architecture Today. He was head of architecture at Oxford Brookes University and was the first James Stirling chair of architecture at Liverpool University, where he is now emeritus professor. His most recent book (2015) is Architecture and the Welfare State.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. This book examines this programme and offers important lessons and insights for the design of collective housing today.
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