Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (eBook)

The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist

Adam Voelcker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
160 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-308-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects. His design work included schools, shops, churches and church halls, town halls, hospitals, cinemas, private houses and public housing schemes. Foulkes made a major contribution to buildings in his hometown of Colwyn Bay and its surrounds, and his influence extended across Wales and beyond. The present study explores Foulkes’s projects broadly by type, illustrating many of them with original photographs, suggesting that his greatest achievements were post-war housing schemes and his involvement in the early field of industrial landscaping in sensitive areas of natural beauty. The book traces how, far removed from the metropolis like so many regional architects, Foulkes had to fight to produce good, ordinary architecture at a time of intense cultural and political change to define an architecture for the modern age.  

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1: The Formative Years
Chapter 2: From Arcadias to Plazas
Chapter 3: Civic Pride
Chapter 4: Community Service
Chapter 5: Homes Fit for Housewives
Chapter 6: Parish and People
Chapter 7: Bread and Butter – and sometimes Jam: Private Houses
Chapter 8: Some Further Projects
Chapter 9: ‘A new orbit’ – Industrial Landscaping
Chapter 10: ‘A Man for All Seasons’
Chapter 11: Postscript
Appendix – obituary by Clough Williams-Ellis
List of Selected Jobs
Select Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Architecture of Wales
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Adam • Architecture • Colwyn • Foulkes • modernist • of • reluctant • Sidney • voelcker
• ISBN-10: 1-83772-308-7 / 1837723087
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83772-308-9 / 9781837723089