Lawn Road Flats/Isokon (3 Lawn Rd, Hampstead, London NW3 2XD)
This viewpoint explains how the structure’s inclusion in an ugly buildings competition brought to a head a larger “crisis of the English avant-garde,” to the lament of one prominent architectural critic.
Senate House (Malet St, London WC1E 7HU)
This viewpoint reveals how Senate House, notable for the “strangely semi-traditional, undecided modernism” that puzzled Pevsner, provided inspiration for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ZSL London Zoo (Regent's Park, London, England NW1 4RY)
This viewpoint uncovers how modernist animal housing was used as a prototype for bold new homes for British citizens, under the guidance of Julian Huxley and other visionaries.
2 Willow Road (Hampstead, London NW3 1TH)
This viewpoint explores architect Ernő Goldfinger’s integration into contemporary British literary circles – far beyond his (frequently misreported) connection to Ian Fleming’s famous villain – and will use 2 Willow Road’s status as a National Trust property to consider how a once-iconoclastic modernism has been reclaimed as national heritage.
Bevin Court (Cruikshank St, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9HB)
In this viewpoint, Bevin Court – originally to be called Lenin Court – offers a lens for understanding how architectural modernism went from a movement associated with communist architects from abroad to a symbol of the British welfare state.