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Gerald Adler runs the BA (Hons) Architecture programme at the University of Kent, where he is Deputy Head of School.
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I was pleased to see that another monograph of an influential British practice was going to be added to the series of books that have been published over the last few years by the Twentieth Century Society. Maguire and Murray were no doubt the most prolific of practices dealing with contemporary church architecture and the Liturgical Movement that gathered pace following World War II. The collaboration between the two partners was also significant considering that only Robert Maguire (b. 1931) was an architect by training. Keith Murray (1929-2005) was a designer of metalwork, silverware, wallpapers and fabrics. In many ways their collaboration was similar to that of Peter Aldington and John Craig, a practice established during a similar period and the subject of another great title within the 20th Century Architects series.
The book is richly illustrated with archive photographs and drawings with the chapters titled according to the differing project typologies the practice was involved with. A flick through the chapter headings reveals the practice was responsible for not only church architecture, but also educational buildings at all stages and communal residential buildings. It is also refreshing to see the practice clients were almost always people or organisations with limited funds and not wealthy individuals or developers. Despite this the architecture was not compromised and evokes the true social good of architecture prevalent during the post war period.
I would recommend this title to anybody interested in the best of contemporary 20th Century architecture.
The book is richly illustrated with archive photographs and drawings with the chapters titled according to the differing project typologies the practice was involved with. A flick through the chapter headings reveals the practice was responsible for not only church architecture, but also educational buildings at all stages and communal residential buildings. It is also refreshing to see the practice clients were almost always people or organisations with limited funds and not wealthy individuals or developers. Despite this the architecture was not compromised and evokes the true social good of architecture prevalent during the post war period.
I would recommend this title to anybody interested in the best of contemporary 20th Century architecture.
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