Demolishing Whitehall

Author : Adam Sharr,Stephen Thornton

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 16 November 2016

ISBN : 9781138277175

Price : €57.32

Description

This book is about a lost world - albeit one less than 50 years old. In the era of Harold Wilsons white heat, architect Sir Leslie Martin proposed a grand plan to demolish and rebuild a swathe of historic Whitehall, Londons government district. At once optimistic and paternalistic, it simultaneously reinforced and challenged a rigidly hierarchical social order at the scales of building, city and nation. This project was never realized, but nevertheless, the plans and the political history surrounding them offer unique insights into Wilsons government, Wilsons Britain and Martins distinctive scientific model of architecture, and more broadly into the connections between architecture, politics and society.

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