NEW HOUSES: Collected & Described by Penelope Whiting, 1964 HB Mid Century Homes

Description: NEW HOUSES COLLECTED AND DESCRIBEDbyPENELOPE WHITING Architectural Press, London 1964 Hardback in dj, approx. 9.5 x 7.5 inches, 168 pp, b/w photos and floor plans almost every page. Good condition: Ex-Library copy with label on spine, mylar covers over dust jacket with fading upper LH, stamps etc. at front endpapers, binding open at endpapers but is completely solid internally - not loose. See pics. Excellent survey of modernist houses in Britain which includes photographs and details of approximately 32 houses built by contemporary architects around 1965, including Michael Manser, Smithsons, Philip Dowson, Ted Cullinan and Patrick Gwynne. Excellent resource on British Modern or Mid Century architecture and homes. USPS Media Mail unless other requested. Returns welcome only if we have mis-described the item. In 1953 Penelope Whiting, one of the few women architects in England, began writing books on architecture, at first with her employer Yorke who had already published several books. Together these publications, published by the Architectural Press, form a key part of the architectural literature on houses of this important post-war period. In 1953 they jointly published ‘The New Small House’ - a ‘picture book to be browsed through’ in Yorke’s words – which as a result reached a wide public. However, as in the other books which followed, it was much more than that with plans, costs, and heating solutions as well as discussions on materials shortages and space standards. Penelope later gave further emphasis to the client’s relationship with the architect.There was further collaboration on the Editorship of ‘Specification’, then a technical bible in architectural practice. Penelope wrote the Floor Finishes section and her engineer husband, Trevor Hawkes, contributed a section on Contractors’ Equipment. She also wrote a technical book on Floor Finishes.After Yorke’s death in 1962 Penelope left YRM and set up her own practice in West London, working principally on developing Southlands Training College in Wimbledon. The complex has mainly been modified into flats after the teacher training college became part of Roehampton University.During this time Penelope published two further influential books; New Houses in 1964 and New Single-Storey Houses in 1966. Unlike ‘The New Small House’, which had included international examples and two Thames barge conversions, these two focused entirely on a variety of modern English houses, which were generally quite economical examples, to which people could relate.

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