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Elain Harwood is an architectural historian with the Historic England division of English Heritage and a specialist in post-Second World War English architecture.[1][2][3]

Early life

Born in June 1958 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, she attended Bramcote Hills Grammar School before reading history at Bristol University. It was the derelict terraces and docklands of Bristol that first drew Harwood to Bristol, but the city was also the home of Berthold Lubetkin and it was an exhibition of his work and the 'Thirties' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 that kindled an interest in modernism, and led her to appreciate the modern buildings of her childhood – schools and the Nottingham Playhouse – that had been so influential to her education, having come from a modest background.

Career

Looking for a career, she took a temporary job in January 1984 at what was to become English Heritage, and has stayed there ever since, learning most from an inspiring day release course in Building Conservation at the Architectural Association. In 1987 she joined what had been the GLC Historic Buildings Division, by then absorbed into English Heritage, just as research was needed on post-war buildings, and between 1996 and 2004 was responsible for most of the organisation's recommendations for listing buildings from the period after 1945, as well as for research programmes on earlier cinemas and flats. She completed a PhD on the building of London's South Bank at Bristol University in 2010.

Selected publications

1990s

  • Exploring England's Heritage: London. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office in association with English Heritage. 1991. ISBN 0113000324. (with Andrew Saint)
  • Tayler and Green, Architects 1938-1973: The Spirit of Place in Modern Housing. 1998. (with Alan Powers)

2000s

  • Festival of Britain. 2001. (With Alan Powers) (Twentieth Century Architecture)
  • England: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings. 2003.
  • The Heroic Period of Conservation. 2006. (With Alan Powers) (Twentieth Century Architecture)
  • The Sixties: Life, Style, Architecture. 2006. (With Alan Powers)
  • Housing the Twentieth Century Nation. 2008. (With Alan Powers)
  • Nottingham: City Guides. 2008.[4] (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)

2010s

  • England's Schools: History, Architecture and Adaptation. 2010. (Informed Conservation)
  • Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. 2011. (20th Century Architects series)
  • Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge Volume 11. 2013. (with Alan Powers)
  • England's Post-War Listed Buildings. 2015. (with James O. Davies)
  • Houses: Regional Practice and Local Character. 2015. (with Alan Powers)
  • Space, Hope, and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945-1975. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 2015.[5][6][7]
  • The English Public Library 1945-85: Introductions to Heritage Assets. 2016.
  • Pomo: Postmodern Buildings in Britain. 2017. (With Geraint Franklin)
  • Ernő Goldfinger. 2017. (With Alan Powers) (20th Century Architects)

References

  1. ^ "Elain Harwood". buildingconservation.aaschool.ac.uk. Architectural Association School of Architecture. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Elain Harwood 2". buildingconservation.aaschool.ac.uk. Architectural Association School of Architecture. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. ^ Singmaster, Deborah (5 October 2000). "A life in architecture: Elain Harwood". Architects' Journal. London: Metropolis International. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Nottingham by Elain Harwood". Yale Books UK.
  5. ^ "Jonathan Meades - Waddling Towards Modernisation".
  6. ^ "Space, Hope & Brutalism: A Conversation with Elain Harwood - Yale University Press London Blog". 5 September 2015.
  7. ^ "A crushing case for brutalism — with the people left out - The Spectator". 10 October 2015.
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