00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027390931311691242 Buklod 20250310130457.0 m |o d | ta 250310s2022 xxkofe |r 001 0 eng 9780192849724 (hardback) Pu-30049 PhP 8,072.26 DCPA rda eng NA 1995 S53 2022 Shasore, Neal 1989- author Designs on democracy architecture and the public in interwar London Neal Shasore. First edition. Oxford Oxford University Press 2022 xxvii, 432 pages illustrations, plans 22 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-424) and index. Introduction : Reconstructing the Profession for a Democratic Age -- 1. Propaganda: Publicity and the Arts of Display at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley -- 2. Slump: Public Relations and the Building World -- 3. Machine-Craft: Forging Public Institutions -- 4. Vigilance: Preservationism and a Proprietary Public -- 5. Manners: Public Propriety and Civic Design -- The Architectural Mind: Topographical Projections on the Public Realm -- Bibliography -- Index. Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so by providing a vivid picture of architectural culture in interwar London, the Imperial metropolis, drawing on histories of design, practice, professionalism, and representation. Most accounts of this period tend to deal exclusively with the emergence of Modernism; this study takes a different approach, encompassing a much broader perspective on the liberal professional consensus that held sway, including architecture's mainstream and its so-called avant-garde. Readers will encounter a number of unexpected narratives, episodes, and projects: from the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley to the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge; from the impact of the Great Slump to the passing of the first Architects Registration Act (1931); from Trystan Edwards's radical housing campaigns to the Londoners' League's unorthodox preservationism. Pulling in a range of evidence and sources - periodicals, exhibitions, photographs, and films, alongside architecture - it evokes architectural culture by listening carefully to the tenor of its discourse. Architecture's public realm is thus analysed through sometimes surprising phrases: 'manners' to understand ideals of public propriety, 'vigilance' to explore public proprietorship, 'slump' to contextualise the emergence of public relations, 'machine-craft' to understand the forging of public institutions. The volume spans the excitable discussions about the reconstruction of the profession for a democratic age after WWI, to reconstruction and planning following WWII, providing an ambitious revision of how we can understand twentieth century architecture in Britain. Provide by publisher Architectural practice England London History 20th century. Architectural practice Great Britain History 20th century. Architecture England London History . FO UPD DCPA NA 1995 S53 2022 Book