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9781472505378 English 1472505379 "British Design: Tradition and Modernity since 1948" brings together a collection of original and insightful essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the siginificance of British design in the last sixty years.The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport. Chapters include fascinating investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. In providing new criticism and analysis on how design within post-war Britain to today has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live. "British Design" provides the much needed contemporary study of the developments within British design in its significant recent history. The book allows us to investigate how Britian's spaces and places have manifested to the modern evironment in which we now inhabit., British Design "brings together a collection of essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the significance of British design in the last sixty years. The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British Design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport.Chapters include investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. British Design "provides the contemporary study of the developments within British design and provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from post-war Britain to today, has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live., British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport.The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live., Spaces & Places: British Design 1948 - 2012 provides a much needed series of new perspectives on British Design's recent history.
9781472505378 English 1472505379 "British Design: Tradition and Modernity since 1948" brings together a collection of original and insightful essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the siginificance of British design in the last sixty years.The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport. Chapters include fascinating investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. In providing new criticism and analysis on how design within post-war Britain to today has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live. "British Design" provides the much needed contemporary study of the developments within British design in its significant recent history. The book allows us to investigate how Britian's spaces and places have manifested to the modern evironment in which we now inhabit., British Design "brings together a collection of essays from international scholars, designers and journalists, offering new perspectives on the significance of British design in the last sixty years. The book reacts and responds to the changes that have taken place in the recent history of British Design, with case studies looking at, among others, domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools, universities and objects of transport.Chapters include investigations into a variety of significant historical and social moments from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers such as Thomas Heatherwick. British Design "provides the contemporary study of the developments within British design and provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from post-war Britain to today, has developed and changed how we live and interact with the spaces in which we live., British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport.The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space and key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live., Spaces & Places: British Design 1948 - 2012 provides a much needed series of new perspectives on British Design's recent history.