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Twentieth Century Architects: Aldington, Craig and Collinge

Alan Powers

  • Format: Book

  • Publisher: RIBA Publishing

  • Date Published: Nov 2009

  • Stock Code: 68615

  • ISBN: 9781859463024

  • Binding: Paperback

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Peter Aldington started his independent architectural practice in 1962, quickly earning an international reputation for designing small houses that respected their village locations and achieved magical transitions between interior and garden.

John Craig then became a partner in the practice in 1970 and they went on to design ground-breaking doctors' group practice surgeries, shops, office interiors and public housing. With the Royal Mail and Hemel Hempstead in the mid 1980s, Aldington, Craig and their younger partner, Paul Collinge, produced their own version of 'high tech'.

Aldington, Craige and Collinge made a major impact in the 1960s and 1970s through its houses and medical buildings, each of which was deeply considered in relation to the site and the way that it would be used. Landscape was integral to the designs, and construction details were clearly expressed within an overall concept of varied and enjoyable spaces. The story unfolds against a background of high hopes for a more sensitive modern architecture in Britain, up to the retirement of the two original partners in 1986.

Alan Powers, Chairman of the Twentieth Century Society, describes the distinctive ideology of Aldington, Craig and Collinge through their built and unbuilt projects. He positions them against the shifting background of modernism in Britain, in which Aldington and Craig played a role as educators and polemicists, calling for better public understanding of the value that architects could bring to living and place-making.

This book is richly illustrated with original colour and black and white photos by Richard Einzig and Richard Bryant, together with drawings from the firms archive.

To find more information about the other titles in the series, please click here.

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About the Author

Alan Powers

Alan Powers is Professor of Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich and Chairman of The Twentieth Century Society. He has published widely on twentieth century architecture, art and design. His recent books include Britain in the series Modern Architectures in History from Reaktion Books, and Art and Print: the Curwen Story, published by Tate. His book on Serge Chermayeff was published by RIBA Publishing in 2001 and is still available. Other activities include curating exhibitions, such as Eric Ravilious: imagined realities at the Imperial War Museum, 2003 and Modern Britain 1929-39 at the Design Museum, 1999. In October 2009, he is curating an exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, in which the Royal Mail Sorting Office at Hemel Hempstead by Aldington, Craig and Collinge, will represent the firm’s work in a selection of eight ‘principled buildings’ chosen at 25 year intervals from 1834, the foundation of the RIBA, to 2009, its 175th anniversary.

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