Description
| Product ID: | 9781739887827 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | London Tube Stations 1924-1961 |
| Authors: | Author: FUEL, Stephen Sorrell, Damon Murray, Philip Butler, Joshua Abbott |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Charles Holden's designs for the London Underground from the mid-1920s to the outbreak of World War II represent a high point of transport architecture and Modernist design in Britain. His collaboration with Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of London Transport, brought about a marriage of form and function still celebrated today. Pick used the term 'Medieval Modernism' to describe their work on the underground system, comparing the task to the construction of a great cathedral. London Tube Stations 1924 - 1961 catalogues and showcases every surviving station from this innovative period. These beautiful buildings, simultaneously historic and futuristic, have been meticulously documented by architectural photographer Philip Butler. Annotated with station-by-station overviews by writer and historian Joshua Abbott, the book provides an indispensable guide to the network's Modernist gems. All the key stations have a double page spread, with a primary exterior photograph alongside supporting images. A broader historical introduction, illustrated with archival images from the London Transport Museum, gives historical context, while a closing chapter lists the demolished examples alongside further period images.These stations, as famed architectural historian Nicholas Pevsner later noted, would "pave the way for the twentieth-century style in England". |
| Imprint Name: | FUEL Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | FUEL Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-13 |
