The Architectural Review, January 1st, 1995
By Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius. Yale University Press 1994. 40 [pounds sterling].
This is an astonishing book, scarcely to be taken in at one reading (or capable of being so read). No wonder it required two authors. It combines an exhaustive trawl through architectural theory and design in Britain as applied to housing between 1945 and 1970, with a comprehensive account of housing finance and local and central government initiatives during the same period: everything from Team X theories to negotiating methods for tower block package deals. There is a certain obsessiveness about ...
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