100 Buidlings 100 Years Socks 136 pages

136 pages

000 photographs - documenting more than 6

organised by typology

Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term 'subtopia' for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning

among them the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius

100 Buidlings 100 Years Socks 136 pagesHardcover, 208 pages By C20 The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. Originally founded as the Thirties Society in 1979, its first major case was the fabulous Art Deco Firestone factory on the Great West Road. Its remit has always been to protect the best of all types and styles of architecture and design from neo Georgian