The Alienation Effect Wells Coates with an in depth essay

with an in depth essay on the LCC’s post war estates and 40 colour images of the estates modernist design and details

By Amalia Sanchez de la Blanca

shedding light as never before on her interests in music

and its campaigns now extend to brutalist and high-tech buildings

The authors present the life of Walter Gropius as not just a key figure of 20th-century architecture

The Alienation Effect Wells Coates with an in depth essayHardback, 608 pages By Owen Hatherley In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the migrs had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed