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Tag Archives: history
Tayler & Green #4 – Coming Home
After the early acclaim for Kings Head Yard, the real world intruded rapidly on Tayler and Green’s career. In 1941 they left London for Norfolk so David Green could help his father’s practice with reconstruction work after early bombing raids … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, Blundeston, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, Lothingland, modernism, Norfolk, normal, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, Wrentham
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Tayler & Green #3 – Early Success
When Tayler and Green arrived at the Architectural Association in 1929 the writings of le Corbusier and other continental modernists were well known in Britain, but there were hardly any buildings in the country which demonstrated the flat-roofed planar aesthetic … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, Brutalism, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Godfrey Imhoff, Herbert Tayler, history, Imhoff House, Kevinge, Kings Head Yard, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, Scandinavian, Scando, Stennas, Sven Markelius, Tayler and Green
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Tayler & Green #2 – Solid Foundations
Tayler and Green first met when the two young men joined the same intake at the Architectural Association in London in 1929. Herbert Tayler arrived from Shrewsbury School, though he was born in Java and lived there until he was … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, Tayler and Green
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Tayler & Green #1 – Hidden Treasure
If you live in Loddon, or any of its neighbouring villages, you will be almost certainly be familiar with the work of Tayler and Green: short runs of mid-C20th terraced houses, with low-pitched roofs, often in pastel-painted brick, sometimes with … Continue reading
Coming Soon: Tayler & Green
Regular readers will know I am a bit of a Tayler and Green fan. I have mentioned them in passing previously (here for instance, or here) but spurred on by the success of Professor Alan Powers’ talk at the Festival … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, Tayler and Green
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What’s this village doing here?
A rare sortie abroad in the last couple of weeks has reminded me that despite the great cost of holidaying overseas (in cash and carbon), it does give one the opportunity to see new things and have time to think … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Celle dei Puccini, history, holiday, Italy, land-use, sustainability, tourism
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The Wide-Fronted House #3
The terraced house was the norm for new homes during the late nineteenth century up to the First World War (see previous post), but thereafter it was the semi-detached house that emerged as the standard format for council-housing and private … Continue reading
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Tagged 1944 Housing Manual, design/architecture, English Semi-Detached House, English Terraced House, history, house-builders, rural archetypes, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, Tudor Walters Report, wide-fronted house
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The Wide-Fronted House #2
In a previous post (way back in October!) I wrote about the wide-fronted house, the third of four ‘rural archetypes’ I described during the tour of Norfolk I did for Beyond Green last summer. I explained that the three- then … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, English Terraced House, history, parker and unwin, rural archetypes, wide-fronted house
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Building Norfolk
Matthew Rice’s book ‘Building Norfolk’ attracted quite a lot of attention when it was published last year; not surprisingly. It is a beautiful book full of exuberant, colourful drawings. I could write a whole other post, lamenting the death of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, development, history, house-builders, local distinctiveness, Matthew Rice, modernism, Norfolk, pastiche, vernacular
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Norfolk’s ‘High-Road’ Buildings
As I explained in a previous post Stewart Brand in his excellent book ‘How Buildings Learn’ makes a distinction between ‘high road’ or special buildings and ‘low road’ or normal, everyday buildings. I also noted that the vast majority of … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, history, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, vernacular
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