The renewal of post-War Manchester : regionality and the architecture of Cruickshank & Seward
University of Manchester, 2018
Online
Hochschulschrift
Zugriff:
Architecture, planning and the state were closely associated with one another after 1945. Cities in the North, Midlands and Scotland experienced an upsurge in development from the late 1950s. This was the mainstream of modern architectural production and constituted most new building. This thesis asks: how can we critically and usefully compare mainstream modernism? Regionality is a concept designed to address this question. Regionality is a spatio-temporal device that uses fixed geographic tools (the site, the building, the region) to address the relationships between bounded territories and rhizomatic networks and their effect on one another in the production of concrete space. In this thesis its use is contingent on legislation designed to control the built environment and its interpretation and implementation through the structures of the state. This dissertation is about how many of the external factors acting upon the procurement and production of mainstream modern architecture were refracted through the lens of the state, its rules and its governance. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, decolonisation and the rise of consumerism, a series of case study sites and buildings are analysed from conception to completion. The buildings were all designed by Cruickshank & Seward and all in Manchester, built between 1954 and 1975. In using one city, one firm and three decades the dissertation reveals the complex, interrelated networks involved in the determination of the mass, form and material. Based primarily on archival research, the relationships between various government departments, regional offices of government, the local authority, private companies, public organisations, architects, developers, planners, clients, policy, reports, guidance, finance, drawings, models, schedules, and more, are revealed. Regionality accounts for the orbit of these actors and networks around the cultural and economic centre of a city region and allows a reading of the many forces at play in the shaping of cities.
Titel: |
The renewal of post-War Manchester : regionality and the architecture of Cruickshank & Seward
|
---|---|
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Brook, Richard ; Gerbino, Anthony |
Link: | |
Veröffentlichung: | University of Manchester, 2018 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
Schlagwort: |
|
Sonstiges: |
|