100 20th-Century Houses

This illuminating book, redesigned and updated for this brand-new edition, offers a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth century. It showcases 100 20th-Century Houses, spanning the 20th century and extending into the 21st. These houses represent a range of architectural styles over the years and illustrate how housing has adapted to suit urban life.

Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts from leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman, and Gillian Darley.

From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for private individuals to housing built for increased workforces, each of these 100 houses embodies a unique design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban dwellings, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories, and affordable post-war homes. Architectural styles include mock Tudor, modernist, Arts and Crafts, and brutalism, featuring architects such as Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya, and David Chipperfield.

The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years. It examines the impact of the world wars on housing, the evolution of domestic technology and building materials, and the development of the modern house.

This compelling book provides a glimpse into the wonderful housing Britain has to offer and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.