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Visionary who realised the dream of a democratic architecture
Sydney Cooks contribution to the development of social housing is recognised in an excellent new book, says MICHAL BONCZA
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Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing
by Mark Swenarton
(Lund Humphries, £45)
SYDNEY COOK’S contribution to architecturally innovative social housing is the stuff of legend.
Post-war, many of the housing estates he inspired and helped build in London — the Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Highgate New Town, Maiden Lane, Polygon Road and Fleet Road — are today places of pilgrimage for students of architecture and urbanism from the world over.
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