All Roof, No Wall: Peter Boston, A-Frames and the Primitive Hut in Twentieth-Century British Architecture,c.1890–1970
| Autor: | Elizabeth McKellar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Architectural History. 62:237-269 |
| ISSN: | 2059-5670 0066-622X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/arh.2019.9 |
| Popis: | A very particular type of modern house in Britain — A-frames of the 1950s and 1960s — emerged from a much longer history of British and Scandinavian-German primitivism centred on the cruck-frame. This article focuses on a small number of architect-designed examples and introduces one of the main proponents of the type, Peter Boston (1918–99). The tension between the A-frame's familiarity as a universal dwelling type and its adoption as a signifier of modernity is a central theme. In the British twentieth-century context, the ‘modern’ included a strong vernacular element, and the new A-frames, which formed part of the ‘timber revival’ of the 1950s and 1960s, were informed by a long-standing interest in the history of cruck-framed construction from the Arts and Crafts onwards, which in turn was part of a wider pan-north European building culture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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