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Die Londoner Stadtteile Blackheath und Greenwich, im Osten der britischen Metropole gelegen, bildeten in den Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg einen ungewöhnlich fruchtbaren Grund für moderne Architektur. Zahlreiche Architekten entwarfen insbesondere eine Vielzahl von Wohnbauten verschiedener Typologien, in denen sie dem Zeitgeist und politischen Entwicklungen folgend Neues erprobten.
Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich basiert auf einem gross angelegten Forschungsprojekt der Architektin Ana Francisco Sutherland. Das englischsprachige Buch analysiert und feiert herausragende Bauten bekannter Architekten wie Eric Lyons, Patrick Gwynne, Peter Moro, Walter Greaves oder Chamberlin, Powell & Bon neben Werken weniger bekannter Firmen. Insgesamt werden 64 Einzelbauten und Wohnanlagen von 38 Architekturbüros mit Bildern, Plänen und konzisen Texten vorgestellt. Die Fotografien stammen von Pierce Scourfield.
Die Autorin betrachtet daneben auch weiter ausgreifend die Entwicklung der modernen Architektur in England und den sozial- und wohnbaupolitischen Kontext der Zeit. Biografische Porträts machen die persönlichen Verbindungen sichtbar, die Blackheath und Greenwich über fünf Dekaden zu jenem ungewöhnlichen architektonischen Experimentierfeld werden liessen. Eine beigelegte Karte mit vorgeschlagenen Routen macht den Band zu einem Architekturführer von ausserordentlicher Detailtiefe.
Ausgezeichnet auf der Longlist des Deutschen Fotobuchpreis 24/25 in der Kategorie Bronze.
About the author
Ana Francisco Sutherland is a Portugeuese architect who has been running her London-based studio, Francisco Sutherland Architects since 2015. Prior to that she worked with Kees Christiaanse Architects and Planners in Rotterdam and Allies & Morrison in London. She lives in Blackheath (London) and has done the designs for the reconstruction of a number of postwar modernist apartments and houses.
Summary
An extensively researched and carefully designed tribute and guide to the post-WWII residential architecture of Blackheath and Greenwich in the southeast of London
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“At first glance, Ana Francisco Sutherland’s
Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich
might seem to be very tightly focused. The monograph, looking at the post-war architecture of a single south London borough, might feel a bit niche, but as Sutherland’s book reveals, this became a focal point of an incredibly rich era of modern design. […] Sutherland, whose studio Francisco Sutherland Architects has worked on several projects in the area, has brought together a huge volume of research. Sixty-four buildings and 38 architects are included, presented in an elegantly functional and era-appropriate layout by Studio Blackburn.” Jonathan Bell,
Wallpaper
“To see
Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich
as simply a guide to buildings of a defined period in a specific area would be to miss the point of the book, in my view. It reads more as a genealogy and demonstrates compellingly how the architec¬ture that now characterizes the area is deeply rooted in the place and its history. ” Nicholas Klerk,
Planning in London
and
Building Design
Report
"At first glance, Ana Francisco Sutherland's Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich might seem to be very tightly focused. The monograph, looking at the post-war architecture of a single south London borough, might feel a bit niche, but as Sutherland's book reveals, this became a focal point of an incredibly rich era of modern design. [...] Sutherland, whose studio Francisco Sutherland Architects has worked on several projects in the area, has brought together a huge volume of research. Sixty-four buildings and 38 architects are included, presented in an elegantly functional and era-appropriate layout by Studio Blackburn." Jonathan Bell, Wallpaper
"To see Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich as simply a guide to buildings of a defined period in a specific area would be to miss the point of the book, in my view. It reads more as a genealogy and demonstrates compellingly how the architec¬ture that now characterizes the area is deeply rooted in the place and its history. " Nicholas Klerk, Planning in London and Building Design
