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Form Follows Fun
Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925–1940
- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain.
Responding to the current interest in modernism and packed with a substantial archive of high quality photographs and other documentation, it relates the professional, entrepreneurial and institutional infrastructures affecting the pleasure industry's architectural development and appearance in 1930s. A broad range of building through which the general public first experienced Modernism are covered, including:
- commercial – holiday camps, cinemas and greyhound racing stadia
- municipal and governmental projects – zoos, seaside pavilions, concert halls, and imperial and international exhibitions.
Arguing that the responses to modernism through the architecture of pleasure were conditioned by wider debates about the role of design in relation to high and mass culture, this book is an ideal resource for all those interested in architectural history and design in Britain between the wars.
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Index
Adelphi cinema, Bulwell, Nottingham, 113
Adkins, Frederick, 100
Adorno, Theodor, 33
Alexander, John, 171
Althusser, Louis, 31
Architectural Review, The, 14,19, 21, 24, 51, 52, 54, 83,127,129,139,151,160,165,169, 174,175, 190
Art Deco, 22, 25, 59, 81,122,129,141,144, 171, 174,178,195,196
Arts and Crafts Movement, 19
Arup, Ove, 23, 24
Asplund, Eric Gunnar, 24, 94
Associated British Cinemas Ltd, 94,188
Atkinson, Robert, 14,101,127
Atlantic Restaurant, Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, 1938,184
Bagenal, Hope, 94,192
Banham, Reyner, 153,154
Bassett-Lowke, W.J., 19, 77
Bataille, Georges, 32, 39
Bauhaus, The, 25,32,175
Bean, William, 62
Behrens, Peter, 19,77
Benslyn, W.T., 127
Berman, Marshall, 16
Bernard, Oliver, 64
Bernstein, Sidney, 137,138
Bertram, Anthony, 24,35, 37,38, 42,119,138
Betjeman, John, 102,134
Betting and Lotteries Act of 1934,44
Black, Misha, 57
Blackpool Illuminations, 71, 91
Blackpool Lido, 46
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, 17, 38, 62,66, 68, 76, 83, 90,130,132, 144,184,186,187,191, 194
Blomfield, Sir Reginald, 19, 20
Blundell, Margaret, 75
Bodley, G.F., 127
Brereton, Professor John Le Gay, 64
British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-5, 66
British Greyhound Tracks Control Society, 43
British Holiday Estates Ltd, 87
British Railways Pavilion, Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, 1938,149
British Vacuum Cleaner Company Ltd, 169
Broadcasting House, London, 65,122,171
Broadway cinema, Shettleston, Glasgow, 136
Brodie, Margaret, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Theorising the architecture of pleasure
- Modernism and a typology of pleasure
- Professional relationships
- Modernism and the geography of pleasure
- Construction and architectural servicing
- Consuming and experiencing the architecture of pleasure
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography and sources
- Index