Sidney Colwyn Foulkes

The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist

Adam Voelcker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2025
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-306-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Adam Voelcker is an architect. He has combined a career in private practice with writing on architecture, including monographs on Herbert North and David Lea, and he was co-author of the Gwynedd volume in the Buildings of Wales (Pevsner) series.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Architecture of Wales
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-83772-306-0 / 1837723060
ISBN-13	978-1-83772-306-5 / 9781837723065
Zustand	Neuware