Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration this unique design typology demonstrates

this unique design typology demonstrates architectural influence over moments of societal change

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creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures

Including David Hockney

The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate

Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration this unique design typology demonstratesIn the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the