JON BALDWIN recommends a provocative assertion of how working-class culture can rethink knowledge
The apples of our eyes
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a photographic sojourn around London housing estates that defined post WWII British civic architecture
MEDITATIONS ON LIFE: (L to R) Dawson Heights, Southwark, 1966-72, Dulwich - Kate Macintosh; Studley Estate, Edrich House, Lambeth, 1968 - George Finch
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GORDON PARSONS squirms at a production that attempts to update Shakespeare’s comedy to a tale of Premier League football
Above a Gothic bar just down from Brighton station, something spooky is happening, suggests JAMES WALSH
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981
Thaddeus Zupancic (Fuel, £26.95)
PHOTOGRAPHER Thaddeus Zupancic hails from Slovenia, where his father first helped focused his gaze on the architecture that nurtured and held communities together, more often than not in wonderful modernist design.
This fascination grew further when he moved to London, via Germany and France, where the sight of these often breathtaking architectural constructs stimulated even more the Situationist in him.
Zupancic’s concise and brief introduction makes important points that contextualise politically and historically what is so intriguing in his illuminating photos.
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