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Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis (20th Century Architects)
Geraint Franklin
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Paperback. Series: 20th Century Architects. Num Pages: 192 pages, 144. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
The Roehampton Lane (Alton West) estate is widely acclaimed as one of the seminal works of the Modern Movement in Britain. Less well known is the identity of its designers, four ambitious young architects in the employ of the London County Council: Bill Howell, John Killick, John Partridge and Stan Amis. Launched into practice with a maverick design for Churchill College, Cambridge, their output ranged from additions to Oxford and Cambridge colleges to theatres, houses and government buildings.Deriving a distinctive design language from revealed structure and highly modelled surfaces, HKPA developed a rich, ... Read more
The Roehampton Lane (Alton West) estate is widely acclaimed as one of the seminal works of the Modern Movement in Britain. Less well known is the identity of its designers, four ambitious young architects in the employ of the London County Council: Bill Howell, John Killick, John Partridge and Stan Amis. Launched into practice with a maverick design for Churchill College, Cambridge, their output ranged from additions to Oxford and Cambridge colleges to theatres, houses and government buildings.Deriving a distinctive design language from revealed structure and highly modelled surfaces, HKPA developed a rich, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Historic England Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
20th Century Architects
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Swindon, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848022751
SKU
V9781848022751
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Ref
99-43
About Geraint Franklin
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Reviews for Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis (20th Century Architects)
This terrific set of books, masterminded by the Twentieth Century Society, is blasting apart lazy assumptions about the architecture of the period as being subsumed into dreariness by modernist dogma. Instead post-war Britain is seen as a country that blended a rich range of flavours, of which HKPA must surely be one of the more piquant. ... The ... Read more