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Author Archives: Matt Wood
At last!
Well it seems my pronouncement of the demise of the Community Right to Build two weeks ago was indeed premature! This week my CRTB Google-alert brought me this document from the Department of Communities and Local Government – their own … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build
Tagged affordable housing, Community Right to Build, development, Localism Bill, policy
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Kilmeena Village: Regionally Distinctive?
I was at RIBA HQ last week, and wandered into a rather boisterous opening-party for an exhibition of the winners of this year’s RIAI Irish Architecture Awards. A project by Cox Power Architects caught my Ruralise eye – a small … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Cork Rural Design Guide, Cox Power Architects, design/architecture, Ireland, Kilmeena Village, local distinctiveness, modernism, normal, pastiche, rural, vernacular, village
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The Community Right to Build is Dead?
Sure – you remember; the Community Right to Build? The flagship idea of the early days of the Localism agenda, and now law as part of the Localism Act. In the immediate aftermath of its announcement back in the late … Continue reading
Looking Forward…
Hope you all enjoyed the Tayler and Green ‘feature’ – but now a look into the future, rather than the past. The architectural community in Norwich is eagerly anticipating the start of a new degree-course in architecture at Norwich University … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Adrian Friend, Arts and Crafts, Charles Jencks, Critical Regionalism, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Lutyens, modernism, Norwich, NUCA, Reyner Banham
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Tayler and Green #11 – Critical Regionalism?
A pervading narrative in UK housing-design is that of ‘local distinctiveness’. The idea that new homes should ‘fit in’, or ‘reflect local character’, is enshrined in national and local planning guidance. For house-builders – and most of the local authority … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, context, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, fitting in, Frampton, Herbert Tayler, history, house-builders, local distinctiveness, Loddon, materials, modernism, Norfolk, normal, pastiche, Tayler and Green, vernacular
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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
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
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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Tayler and Green #9 – Composition
Tayler and Green’s preference for terraces over more conventional semis was partly due to their impact in the landscape. Tayler had come to believe that semis looked wrong in a rural context – like ‘a row of pointed teeth, with … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, composition, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, landscape, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, orientation, parker and unwin, radburn planning, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace
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Tayler and Green #7 – A Kit of Parts
Loddon Council’s most pressing need, reflected in its initial briefings to Tayler and Green, was for family homes (one four-bed house for every seven three-beds), but very soon the Council introduced single-storey two-bed units into the mix, for older residents. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, bungalow, Critical Regionalism, David Green, Davy Place, design quality, design/architecture, Egan, Geldeston, Herbert Tayler, history, Kells Acre, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, Rethinking Construction, Tayler and Green
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