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Lustron Corp. hoped its prefabricated steel homes would address the need for postwar housing. The company’s Columbus factory closed after making just 2,600 homes, most of which still stand today.
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Greek architect Minas Kosmidis redesigned this postwar two story detached house featuring a stunning Acropolis view, located in the area of Thisio in Athens, Greece. Besides the restoration work which had to be done for
House (1976) built for himself in São Paulo, Brazil, by Abrahão Sanovicz. Photo by Nelson Kon.
Houses of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are now old enough to suffer from the indignities of age as well as constant assaults made to “update” them. Applied thoughtfully, modern materials and methods will make them better than new.
Lustron Corp. hoped its prefabricated steel homes would address the need for postwar housing. The company’s Columbus factory closed after making just 2,600 homes, most of which still stand today.
Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great ...
BVN makes a memorable statement about sustainability and re-use in a renovated and extended postwar house in Brisbane.
Artist Katharina Roters photographs the controversial "Hungarian Cubes." Once a cozy place to call home and a bold political statement of identity.
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HERE are some archive photographs of Duffryn estate, in Newport, when it was built in 1978. Owned and run by the council at that time, the homes all…
Editor’s Note: This post is the second of an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer and heritage architecture consultant Thomas Wicks will look into the history of that style, the people behind it and where in Toronto examples can be found. – – – – – – – –Continue reading "Wartime Housing"
Photos, sketches, tables and plans of Sheffield, England. Taken from the JR James Slide Collection.
These slides were used in a lecture presented by JR James at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
In January 2007, guest-editors Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedeknecht met with OM Ungers in the library of his Belvederestrasse house in Cologne M
They were built to last only 10 years. Seven decades on, the 187 homes of Britain's largest remaining prefab estate stand strong. But now the local council is set on demolition – so one photographer has given the residents the least their extraordinary homes deserve: a museum
A collection of images from the 1960s and 1970s provides a treasure trove for reassessing a vilified era of town planning.
Did you know that after world war II the Lustron corporation manufactured prefabricated, porcelain steel-enameled homes, referred to as ‘America’s Modern Metal Marvel’? These postwar prefabs presented a solution for affordable housing, between 1948-1950, as well as a better quality of living for middle-class Americans. Lustrons were one-story, ranch style homes, featuring a stylish open …
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Architects; GLC Architects Department, early to mid 60s. Designed in Colin Lucas's group by Stout & Litchfield, who later built some magical private houses. Worth remembering that Colin's group had already completed Alton West/ Roehampton housing with HKP&A as part of the team and was working on Kidbrook /Ferrier Estate at this time. Working there as a student , my first glimpse of this housing left me stunned. This housing (if it still exists) was somewhere in Clapham area, I never saw it again, however, if some one can locate this site I would be grateful as I would love to revisit it. These two photos are scanned from photographs taken by Photographic Unit of GLC who also held their copyrights.
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House Kokfelt (1956) in Tisvilde, Denmark, by Arne Jacobsen
We’ve all seen Julius Shulman’s memorable photograph of mid-century ease: It’s night, and a man stands in a glass-walled room that is cantilevered out over a glittering carpet of Los Angeles lights. The iconic image is featured in the 40th edition of Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945–1966 (Taschen) by Elizabeth T. Smith. […]
By 1954, almost two thousand new houses had been completed in Peterlee and whilst the new housing was a marked improvement on the old colliery houses, the whole development was unadventurous. Artist Victor Pasmore was offered a commission; to consider both housing and landscape as a total concept, to contribute to the aesthetics of the […]
Houses of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are now old enough to suffer from the indignities of age as well as constant assaults made to “update” them. Applied thoughtfully, modern materials and methods will make them better than new.
On the complex architectural and social legacy of postwar public housing in the banlieues that ring contemporary Paris.
Houses of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are now old enough to suffer from the indignities of age as well as constant assaults made to “update” them. Applied thoughtfully, modern materials and methods will make them better than new.
Pacific Palisades, California Located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles County, the structure sits on ideal land within view of the Pacific Ocean. The avant-garde design is striking and radically different from your average home. Yet, the house was built for modern living at a reasonable construction cost.
Did you know that after world war II the Lustron corporation manufactured prefabricated, porcelain steel-enameled homes, referred to as ‘America’s Modern Metal Marvel’? These postwar prefabs presented a solution for affordable housing, between 1948-1950, as well as a better quality of living for middle-class Americans. Lustrons were one-story, ranch style homes, featuring a stylish open …
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Berlin has lots of these post-war housing estates across the whole city. When I was a child I had friends living in these post-war housing estates and we used to play there and ride our bikes. During the summer, I would spend every day in the public open-air bath located basically midst all these tall buildings.
Sarcelles, 1966 Jacques Windenberger
A collection of images from the 1960s and 1970s provides a treasure trove for reassessing a vilified era of town planning.
Davina Jackson explores the genesis of the Sydney School of architecture that emerged in the 1960s – and attempts to locate it in the broader modernist movement.
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The council housing designed 50 years ago for a progressive London borough remains a potent symbol of the achievements of postwar social democracy.
