Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction

With unprecedented depth in this important subject, this book examines architectural modernism in Britain through the 1930s not only as an architectural ideology but as part of a wider modernist movement engaging with other expressive media and with political and social progress. Bringing previously overlooked material to the fore, this study fills a gap in the history of architecture and demonstrates how architects in the late 1920s onwards sought to establish modernism as the dominant force in British architectural culture. With it unique focus on a time at which architectural modernism began its rise to hegemony in the UK, this book considers a range of buildings as a reflection of the modernist influence on the reconstruction of Britain.

Elizabeth Darling is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University, UK