Frognal Close, Hampstead

1936

Ernst Freud

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/spec-houses-mini-guide.html

*clears throat*

WHY HAVEN’T Y’ALL TOLD ME ABOUT WILLIAM POWELL AND THE THIN MAN SERIES?!?!?! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!!

so, y’all heard about my recent obsession with the 1920s and 1930s because of EVERYTHING and i’ve been columbusing pre-code Hollywood movies.

oh.
em.
gee.

WILLIAM POWELL WAS THE HOTNESS!!!

Lady Bankes School, Ruislip
1936
W.T Curtis and H.W. Burchett of Middlesex County Council

66 Frognal, Hampstead, Camden

1938

Connell, Ward and Lucas

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/66-frognal.html

Kingston Railway Station

1935

James Robb Scott of Southern Railway

https://bit.ly/3XnWotZ

Kenmore Park School, Queensbury, Harrow

1938

W.T. Curtis & H.W. Burchett of Middlesex County Council

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/kenmore-park.html

Architect's Office, 42 Bruton Place, Mayfair

​1937

Mitchell & Bridgwater

My article "From Monitorul Oficial To Calea Victoriei: Decoding 1930s Bucharest Through Women’s Fashion" published in Journal of Romanian Studies in @soc4rostudies at @livunipress is free to read for a limited time.
Find it here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/jrns.2023.3?fbclid=IwAR2J7Pfy_xWqnszqHaUaprWBM3jd0g1Hf8Ji87FFKFSwKE6bRVcH2M2xJGE
#histodons #romania #bucharest #interwar #interbelic #bucuresti #women #fashion #femei #moda #monitoruloficial #officialgazette #caleavictoriei

Introducing myself at last:

Architectural historian. #architecturalhistory #history #architecture #histodons #buildings

Lecturer. #academic #highered

Twentieth century architecture ... #C20 #modernism #modernity #modern #interwar #postwar #midcentury

... and its social and political histories ... #society #politics #state #government #welfare #civic

... especially church architecture ... #churches

... and increasingly not. #powerstation #townhall #industry #factory #commerce #capitalism #university #hospital #urbanism #urbanhistory #landscape

Mostly in Britain, and sometimes beyond. #uk #british #britain #wales #welsh #scottish #scotland #bristol #bath #westcountry

Editorial team of 'Architectural History' for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. #sahgb

But informally, rarely without a camera and interested in everything.