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Harrison, Nigel and Robertson, Iain J (2018) Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis. In: Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 187-206. ISBN 1474420958
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Harrison, N and Robertson, I (2017) Beyon Portmeirion - the Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough William-Ellis, in Bluemel, K and McCluskey M.J. (ed.) Rural Modernity..pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Available under License All Rights Reserved. Download (2MB) |
Abstract
For much of his long and productive life, Clough Williams-Ellis was known as the second-rate architect who designed the bizarre Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion. Jonah Jones’s 1996 biography of him may have perpetuated this view, its title including the phrase The Architect of Portmeirion. Williams-Ellis himself seemed, somewhat modestly, to endorse that diminished assessment by calling his (first) autobiography Architect Errant (1971), a decision that was consistent with a career spent ‘enduring considerable scorn from his fellow professionals’.¹ In contrast to such characterisations, this chapter champions Clough Williams-Ellis as an important figure in modern and modernist architecture.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Chapter 11 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Rural Modernity; British Literature; Art; Culture; Economics; Transport; Communication; Social Changes |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
| Research Priority Areas: | Culture, Continuity, and Transformation |
| Depositing User: | Kate Greenaway |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2019 16:53 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2022 15:16 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/7643 |
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