Sidney Colwyn Foulkes
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Sidney Colwyn Foulkes

The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist

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Sidney Colwyn Foulkes

The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist

About this book

This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain's most significant regional architects. His design work included schools, shops, churches and church halls, town halls, hospitals, cinemas, private houses and public housing schemes. Foulkes made a major contribution to buildings in his hometown of Colwyn Bay and its surrounds, and his influence extended across Wales and beyond. The present study explores Foulkes's projects broadly by type, illustrating many of them with original photographs, suggesting that his greatest achievements were post-war housing schemes and his involvement in the early field of industrial landscaping in sensitive areas of natural beauty. The book traces how, far removed from the metropolis like so many regional architects, Foulkes had to fight to produce good, ordinary architecture at a time of intense cultural and political change to define an architecture for the modern age.  

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. General Editor’s Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. 1 The Formative Years
  10. 2 From Arcadias to Plazas
  11. 3 Civic Pride
  12. 4 Community Service
  13. 5 Homes Fit for Housewives
  14. 6 Parish and People
  15. 7 Bread and Butter – and Sometimes Jam: Private Houses
  16. 8 Some Further Projects
  17. 9 ‘A New Orbit’: Industrial Landscaping
  18. 10 ‘A Man for All Seasons’
  19. 11 Postscript
  20. Appendix: Obituary by Clough Williams-Ellis
  21. List of Selected Projects
  22. Select Bibliography
  23. Notes
  24. Picture Section