2018 - Franco Angeli
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Reconstruction, Englishness and Coventry Cathedral
87-109 p.
- This article considers the way in which the architect Basil Spence, despite his Scottish background and training, placed strategic emphasis upon his familiarity with and sympathy for the architectural traditions of his adoptive country of England. It explores the connections made in the 1940s and 1950s between national identity and gothic architecture, viewed by Spence as a style of vitality and integrity, and links it to the design of Coventry Cathedral, a building which simultaneously commemorated the nation's wartime dead and symbolized its post-war reconstruction. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5523
KEYWORDS
- Basil Spence, John Harvey, Coventry Cathedral, Blitz, Neo-romanticism;
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In this issue
- Britain at war : an introduction
- The bombing of British cities in the Second World War.
- Planning in Britain during and immediately after the Second World War : planners, processes and plans
- Forgetful or purposeful? Memory and the remaking of place after the Blitz
- Reconstruction, Englishness and Coventry Cathedral
- Ruins for remembrance : the debate about the bombed London City churches and its echoes in Italy
- A case study in the City of London : St Alban's church in Wood Street
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