Main entry:

Swenarton, Mark, author.

Title & Author:

Cook's Camden : the making of modern housing / Mark Swenarton ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; photography by Tim Crocker and Martin Charles.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2017.
©2017

Description:

327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sydney Cook at Camden: Geared to producing ideas, with the emphasis on youth -- Developing a new format for urban housing: Neave Brown and the design of Fleet Road -- Creating a piece of city: Neave Brown and the design of Alexandra Road -- A city on a hill: Peter Tabori at Highgate New Town -- Class war in Hampstead: The Battle of Branch Hill -- The Poetics of Housing: Benson and Forsyth at Branch Hill -- Gospel Oak: From Powel & Moya to Benson and Forsyth -- Only connect: Benson and Forsyth at Maiden Lane -- Urban Dentistry: Edward Cullinan Architects and Colquhoun & Miller -- Politics versus architecture: The Alexandra Road public enquiry of 1978-81 -- Conclusion: Cook's Camden today.

Summary:

The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes - which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane - set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time, including Neave Brown, Benson & Forsyth and Peter Tabori, and also commissioned up-and-coming practices such as Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. 00The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context.

ISBN:

9781848222045
1848222041

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic England London History 20th century.
Row houses England London History 20th century.
Habitations en bandes Angleterre Londres Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic History England 20th century.
Row houses History England 20th century.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Row houses
Camden (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London.
England London Camden

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Frampton, Kenneth, writer of foreword.
Crocker, Tim, photographer.
Charles, Martin, 1940-2012, photographer.

Making of modern housing

Holdings:

Location: Library main 303929
Call No.: BIB 249458
Status: Available