IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Building on the ‘Second Elizabethan age: eight decades of building’.
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… Perhaps it was the Festival of Britain….that helped to transform popular perceptions of what architecture and design might be…
Building writes:
Looking back over a remarkable reign as seen through some key architecture Ben Flatman writes in Building on 9 September 2022:
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has spanned a remarkable period of change in British history and constuction. She came to the throne at the age of 25 in 1952, when Britain was still experiencing rationing, and bombsites pockmarked the nation’s great cities….
The years since Elizabeth’s ascendancy to the throne have been marked by periods of confidence and then crushing bouts of national self-doubt…
The same might be said of British architecture, which has seen huge ideological and stylistic changes during Elizabeth’s reign. In 1952 architecture was stuck in a strange limbo, not entirely sure of what to make of the rapidly changing international context, or international modernism.
Perhaps it was the Festival of Britain, which had taken place in the summer of 1951, that helped to transform popular perceptions of what architecture and design might be in the postwar era. Over the following decades a restrained neo-Georgian influenced style gave way to the strident modernism of the 1960s and 70s…..
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