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Tag Archives: The Sublime
Tayler & Green #10 – Refusing to Indulge the Un-Homely
In a most arresting passage of Alan Power’s essay in ‘Tayler and Green 1938-1973: The Spirit of Place in Modern Housing’, he describes one of the main differences between Tayler and Green’s approach and the ethos of ‘mainstream’ Modernism. It … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, colour, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, domesticity, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, pattern, Tayler and Green, The Sublime, through-store, trellis, Un-homely, Unhomely
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Rural Simplicity #2 – Hunsett Mill
Finally, I’ve found time for a few words about Hunsett Mill which won the Manser Medal for ‘Best New House’ at the RIBA Awards a few weeks back. But it’s not really my own words I’m focussing on; it’s something … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Hunsett Mill, modernism, normal, Pevsner, Tayler and Green, The Sublime
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