20th century

How to be Modern: Arne Jacobsen in the 21st Century

48 pages, paperback, 210 x 185 mm, 35 illustrations
PRICE: £12.99
ISBN: 1901352145

By Stephen Hodder, Emily King et al.

2002 was the centenary of Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen's birth (1902–1971). The Museum of Modern Art in Oxford celebrated Jacobsen's enduring importance by presenting a new exhibition which aimed to introduce to a wider audience apsects of his work as an architect and designer.

One of Arne Jacobsen's most famous buildings is St Catherine's College in Oxford from 1964–66, and acknowledged as among the most significant buildings of the modern era to be found in Britain. In St Catherine's striking buildings in glass and concrete Jacobsen married modern materials with a traditiona; layout around a quadrangle. As with his other buldings St Catherine was made as a 'Gesamtkunstwerk', with cutlery, furniture, and lampshades being of Jacobsen's own idiosyncratic design.

This book accompanied an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford 20 April – 23 June 2002, curated by Astrid Bowron.

The Sixties

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. The Sixties: a time of sexual and cultural liberation, the Space Age and a tremendous optimism. There were radical new fashions in clothes, lifestyle objects and architecture - and also the rediscovery of Victoriana and Art Nouveau. This is a collection of essays by the architects and designers who were there, including Peter Smithson, Patrick Hodgkinson and Jane Dillon, and historians such as Gavin Stamp and Lesley Jackson with fresh insights on those enthusiastic, mixed-up times. More

British Modern: Architecture and Design in the 1930s

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. This latest publication from The Twentieth Century Society covers many aspects of the architecture and designs of the 1930s, from the influence of sculpture and photography, through the work of iconic architechts like Lubetkin, to the impact of new housing models on their inhabitants. More

The Heroic Period of Conservation

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. It was the 1960s, just when the Smithsons were writing, that conservation emerged in Britain as a mainstream aspect of architecture, introducing precisely those issues about social purpose, urbanism and ecology that were central to architecture's participation in the counterculture and its resistance to global capitalism. More

Post-war Houses - OUT OF PRINT

Houses designed by Brian Housden, Patrick Gwynne, Robert Harvey and John Penn are considered in seven essays by leading architects, art historians and curators. More

Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets, East London, was designed by Alison + Peter Smithson and completed in 1972. In 2008, this large social housing scheme was threatened with demolition and became a controversial conservation case. This book uncovers the history of the project, arguing for its historical and architectural significance and for its future role in housing provision. More

Housing the Twentieth-century Nation

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. There was no bigger issue in the twentieth century than housing. In peace or war, people need homes, and a growing population and demands for better standards put architects, planners and sociologists to work. The century was known for its public housing, culminating in the tower blocks that once peppered major cities such as Birmingham and Glasgow, now fast disappearing. More

The Modern House Revisited

The second in the 20th Century Society Journal series has essays on modern houses open to the public, Harbour Meadow in Sussex, Dorich House in Kingston, Villa Savoy, and essays on patrons, textiles and plastics of the modern house and an interview with Elisabeth Benjamin and a discussion on F.R.S. Yorke. More

Festival of Britain

NO LONGER DISTRIBUTED BY PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING IN THE UK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. First published in 2001 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, this second edition coincides with the Festival's 60th anniversary. The book reproduces more pictures in colour and black-and-white than ever published together before and remains informative, entertaining and challenging to received opinions. More

PHP

Paul Holberton Publishing