England's Post-War Listed Buildings: Including Scheduled Monuments and Registered Landscapes - Hardcover

Harwood, Elain; Davies, James O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849941467 ISBN 13: 9781849941464

Publisher: Batsford, 2015

Synopsis

England's Post-War Listed Buildings is a comprehensive and stylish guide to over 500 of the country's most striking and historically relevant architectural gems, from private houses to schools, churches, military buildings, monuments and parks.

Listed buildings include traditional works by Raymond Erith and Donald McMorran and many of the 'pop icons' of the 1960s (including Centre Point). Also featured are internationally outstanding modern works like Stirling and Gowan's Leicester Engineering Building and Foster Associates' offices for Willis Faber Dumas in Ipswich.

This fully updated and expanded edition contains numerous new entries arranged in an accessible, regional structure, as well as features on telephone boxes, landscapes, memorials and sculptures. Each entry is illustrated with photographs and includes information on architect, date of construction and listing grade date, as well as a detailed description of the site and what makes it unique.

About this title

About the Author

Elain Harwood is a historian with Historic England, and author of Space Hope and Brutalism, England’s Post-War Listed Buildings and Art Deco Britain. She gives lectures and leads tours for the C20 Society, and has published Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in association with them, HE and the RIBA, and 100 Buildings/Houses/Churches/Landscapes, 100Years in association with Batsford. She lives in London.James O. Davies is Head of Imaging at Historic England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Batsford
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849941467
• ISBN 13: 9781849941464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608