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Kenneth Powell
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Format: Book
Pages: 160
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Date Published: Mar 2009
Stock Code: 67452
ISBN: 9781859463031
Binding: Paperback
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The first ever comprehensive and engaging account of one of Britains most significant post-war practices, Powell & Moya.
Founded in 1946 by Philip Powell and Hidalgo 'Jacko' Moya, the practice rapidly established a reputation for an approach best described as 'humane modernism'. This book reveals the principles of design particular to Powell & Moya, and tells how they were at the forefront of hospital design, succeeded in bringing modernism to the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge, designed one of London's most successful post-war housing schemes, Churchill Gardens and enlivened the 1950s London skyline with the iconic Skylon.
Lavishly illustrated with images from the Powell & Moya archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students, historians and modernist enthusiasts interested in learning more about one of the twentieth centuries most successful British practices dedicated to modern thinking and serving the people.
Written by eminent architectural author and critic Kenneth Powell, this book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on 20th Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.
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Featured Reviews
John Haworth, formerly Partner at Powell & Moya
Ken Powell has not produced a catalogue raisonné - rather a portrait of the personalities and individuals involved and their influence on the design process and output. He does not attempt a thorough architectural critique; there are no drawn plans and sections (perhaps there is still scope for such a book), but the List of Works provides a complete project listing and is a valuable resource. It is interesting to understand the social and political background to Powell & Moya’s work. Working primarily on public sector projects, they created projects of real modernity but also of great humanity. Their style had a degree of honesty and simplicity which gives many of their projects a timeless quality.They were not great self publicists, so it is interesting to see how a practice with such a relatively small built portfolio had an effect on the architectural profession nationally. Their influence can be discerned in later works by many other practices. Although self-effacing in many ways, some of their work was ground breaking. Chichester Festival Theatre, for instance, was the first large thrust stage theatre in the UK – and built on a shoestring budget, while the British Pavilion for Expo 70 in Osaka was a very large scale wholly suspended structure, way ahead of its time.
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