Twentieth Century Architects: McMorran & Whitby
Edward Denison
October 2009
Code: 68621
ISBN: 9781859463208
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'Hope lies in patient discovery of humanist values, expressed in compressive structures, as they always have been and must always be'
wrote Donald McMorran in 1960. The buildings he designed with his original partner, Horace Farquharson and later with George Whitby, were
a continuation of the international style of refined classicism of the 1920s, exemplified by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The police stations,
public housing and other buildings by the practice showed that traditional styles could still be used inventively and that Welfare State
architecture need not be synonymous with Modernism. McMorran and Whitby were criticised for their resistance to modernism, but since the
1960s the enduring quality of their work has been increasingly admired, and their place in history is becoming more widely recognised. A
long-time champion of their work, Gavin Stamp, contributes a foreword to Edward Denison's ground-breaking survey.
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