Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration creating spaces and participating in

creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture   Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but

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ISBN: 9780241631782

Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration creating spaces and participating inIn 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