Slides from the London Society's Saturday morning architecture school. This is Modern London - between the wars - by AAlan Powers

1. SATURDAY MORNING ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
THE EVOLUTION OF LONDON’S ARCHITECTURE
ALAN POWERS
MODERN ARCHITECTURE -
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN LONDON BETWEEN THE WARS
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2. Malcolm Drummond (artist)
Queen Anne’s Mansions, 1912
(Plymouth Art Gallery)
Built 1874-7, at 14 storeys, the
tallest residential building in
London.
Led to restriction in 1894 on
the height of buildings at 80ft.

3. Mewès & Davis
Ritz Hotel, 1906

4. Daniel Burnham (Chicago) and Frank Atkinson
Selfridges, Oxford Street, under construction, 1910.
Steel frame covered by classical columns.

5. Piccadilly Circus, 1909

6. Muirhead Bone
Demolition of the Old County Fire Office,
December 1929

7. Philip Tilden
Selfridges Tower (proposal)
1918

8. S. E. Rasmussen, ‘Sir Edwin in Fairyland’, 1927

9. Sir Edwin Lutyens
Midland Bank, Poultry, 1925

10. Sir John Burnet and Thomas Tait
Adelaide House, London Bridge, 1924

11. Sir John Burnet and Tait
Royal Masonic Hospital,
1934

12. William Walcot, The Savoy Hotel in the year 1950, 1929

13. Wallis, Gilbert &
Partners,
Above:
Firestone,
Great West Road, 1928
Below:
Hoover, Western Avenue,
Greenford, 1930

14. Oliver Bernard, Strand Palace Hotel entrance,
Strand, London, 1929

15. E. Wamsley Lewis and
W. E. Trent
New Victoria Cinema
(now Apollo Victoria),
Wilton Road, SW1
1930

16. Sir Owen Williams with
Ellis & Clarke
Daily Express,
Fleet Street, 1930

17. H. S. Goodhart-Rendel
St. Olaf House,
Hay’s Wharf, 1931

18. Charles Holden
Senate House,
University of London,
1932-37 (201ft)

19. Charles Holden
Arnos Grove Station, 1934

20. Cambridge Theatre
interior;
Moderne Bauformen,
1931
exterior;
Wimperis, Simpson &
Guthrie

21. Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1930

22. The Futurist Wedding Cake,
Punch, 1931
‘Oh go on, tell me you hate it!’, Punch
Niece: ‘And how do you like my
furniture and decorations?’
Aunt: ‘Well, my dear, I think it must
be lovely to be young and have the
stamina to live with it.’
Punch, 6 May 1931

23. Raymond McGrath
Dance Music Studio,
Broadcasting House, 1932
G. Val Myer
Broadcasting House

24. Serge Chermayeff
8th floor waiting room,
Broadcasting House, 1932

25. Wells Coates and
Special
Effects studio,
Broadcasting House,
1932

26. Wells Coates,
Isokon Flats, Lawn Road
Hampstead, 1934
Right: Penthouse flat with
furniture by Marcel Breuer,
designed in London in 1930s

27. Mosei Ginsburg
Narkomfin
Moscow, 1928-32

28. Lubetkin & Tecton
Penguin Pool, London Zoo, 1934

29. Lubetkin and Tecton,
Highpoint Flats, Highgate,
Highpoint 1 (left) 1933-35, Highpoint 2 (right) 1936-38

30. MARS New Architecture exhibition
New Burlington Galleries, 1938

31. Burnet, Tait and Lorne
Evelyn Court, Amhurst Road, N10, 1934

32. Edward Armstrong
Loughborough Park
Brixton, SW9, 1938

33. E. Maxwell Fry
Kensal House Flats, 1936

34. Sir Owen Williams
Pioneer Health Centre
Peckham, 1935

35. Peckham Health Centre
gymnasium and pool

36. H. A. Rowbotham (London County Council)
Parliament Hill Lido, Hampstead, 1936

37. George Coles
Odeon (now Everyman),
Muswell Hill, 1936

38. Connell, Ward &
Lucas
66 Frognal,
Hampstead, 1938

39. Joseph Emberton
Simpsons
Piccadilly, 1936

40. William Crabtree with Slater, and Moberly and C. H. Reilly
Peter Jones
Sloane Square, 1935-38

41. 66 Old Church Street, 1936

42. Erich Mendelsohn &
Serge Chermayeff
64 Old Church Street
Chelsea, 1935

43. Frontispiece in F. R. S. Yorke,
The Modern House in England,
1937

44. Serge Chermayeff,
W. A. Gilbey
Oval Road, NW1,
1937

45. Mortimer Gall Electrical Showroom
Cannon Street, 1937

47. Ernst L. Freud
Above:
Frognal Close, 1936
Below:
Belvedere Court,
1937-8

48. M. J. H. & Charlotte Bunney
13 Downshire Hill, 1936

49. Ernö Goldfinger
1-3 Willow Road,
Hampstead, 1939

50. Erno Goldfinger
drawing showing Nos. 1-3 Willow Road
as part of a town square, 1940

51. From Bruno Taut,
Modern Architecture,
1930
From Steen Eiler
Rasmussen,
London, the unique city,
1937

52. Lionel Brett,
The Things we see: Houses, 1947
Tayler and Green,
The Studio, Duke’s Head Yard
Highgate 1940

53. ‘That summer in England it was always afternoon. Dorothy
and I fell in love with London, the barrows of flowers at
every corner, the politeness and the friendliness. Everybody
was kind, and we moved in a happy round of architecture
and museums by day , and architects and new friends by
night.’
Ernestine Carter on summer in London, 1936
from With Tongue in Chic, 1974

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