Ursula blackwell (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 2. 200 S. Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, innen alles in Ordnung. D251215axh26 ISBN: 9783724310198 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2118.

A complete run of the modernist architect Ern Goldfinger's vision for a post-war Britain: 20 display boards produced for the Army Bureau to demonstrate the possibility of replacing the bombed-out slums with rationally planned towns, with separate areas for work, rest, and play, linked by wide roads and pedestrian lanes. The proposal, produced with his wife Ursula Blackwell, focused on the heavily bombed Shoreditch area. The boards contain maps, aerial photomontages, and diagrams visualizing the features of the new community. The emphasis was on how different classes, and both young and old, could live together in a "vertical city". Goldfinger praises the rural village for its social nature, but holds that the modern city crushes this. In his view, the tower block would create neighbourliness. Everyone would be within walking distance to recreation areas and green spaces, without crossing traffic. The brutalist tower block now synonymous with Goldfinger has left him hated by many, who accuse him of replacing (perhaps romanticized) organic communities of Victorian terraces with oppressive, dehumanizing concrete high-rise blocks, towering over polluting roads and too-few social spaces. The villain Goldfinger in the James Bond novels is named after him. He nonetheless retains a select group of admirers, who maintain his ideals could have worked if properly applied (his proposals here for Shoreditch, for example, were never implemented). Complete as run of 20 posters on firm card (each 353 x 487 mm), original pinholes in corners from display. The expected age toning, yet overall in excellent condition, without wear save for tiny nicks at extremities.…