Stefi Orazi has become the unofficial chronicler of London\u2019s housing heyday. Her 2015 architecture book Modernist Estates\u00a0tapped into the revival of interest in the high-quality local authority buildings of modernist architecture that sprouted across the capital in the post-war building boom. She followed it up with a monograph on The...
, that rare and enduring example of an expansive private housing development lovingly deployed with a pure modernist ethos. Orazi, a long-time Barbican resident, has now turned her pen to its near neighbour, the Golden Lane Estate.
Golden Lane can trace its origins back to the 13th century, but it was the Second World War that set the scene for an all-new project. In 1952, Geoffry Powell won a competition held by the City Corporation to build workers’ housing in this area, once the heart of London’s rag trade but utterly devastated in the Blitz, which destroyed almost a third of the City of London’s buildings.
Orazi’s book includes an introduction by the architectural historian Elain Harwood, an acknowledged expert on the work ofArchive imagery is beautifully paired with contemporary architectural photography by Mary Gaudin and a series of residents’ portraits by Julian Ward. These accompany Orazi’s interviews with contemporary residents, along with a view into a select number of the many different apartment types that make up the estate.
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