Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... rich ... offers a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era chiefly defined by its multiplicity of styles -- Richard Morrison * The Times * A plea for the recognition of the incredible diversity of interwar architecture, from suburban Tudorbethan semis to Battersea Power Station -- 'Books of the Year' * Financial Times * A trailblazing study, posthumously published, that reveals the quality and stylistic variety of architecture in Britain between the world wars. A study that defines its subject -- 'Books of the Year' * Country Life * A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer -- Simon Heffer * Daily Telegraph * Majestic ... [ an] excitable, illuminating and sure to be enduring work * Financial Times * His greatest work ... When so much of our built environment is unlovely, Stamp shows why it is worth looking again, and harder * New Statesman * Meticulous ... a fascinating new survey of the era * Prospect * Extraordinary ... a most brilliant, authoritative and engaging guide ... Stamp's ability to present clearly for a general audience was as unusual as it is remarkable * Country Life * Simple and elegant ... never doctrinaire, [ Stamp] is an accessible gentleman-scholar guide to his subject ... Interwar is a riposte to the standard narrative about the emergence of modernism * Times Literary Supplement * Extraordinary ... a magnificent tour d'horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects * The Critic * A masterful revision of the history of interwar architecture, no longer as a barren seedbed of modernism but as an era of stylistic diversity, invention and delight -- Simon Jenkins Definitive ... both vital and clear, a book steeped in technical detail, full of meticulous attention, yet accessible and without prejudice - never dry and certainly not florid ... Stamp wrote definitive books on grand and humble subjects * Spectator * 'Magisterial ... a monumental achievement ... in untangling the threads of a period of unimaginable change and stubborn constancy, Stamp is a forensic and sympathetic chronicler. You wish he were still on the stage. But in Interwar he has left behind the work of a lifetime * Apollo Magazine * [ Interwar] is valuable in its lively and perceptive discussion of a range of buildings and debates from the period * Literary Review * Stamp was a superb writer with an untouchable knowledge of the period ... a wonderful memorial to a great writer * Art Newspaper * It is impossible in a brief review to do justice to this book's riches. It is an object lesson in how to write about architecture. Interwar, wherein Stamp stomps on tilting horses, is the magnum opus that will keep him alive as long as people find architecture worth reading and writing about * New Criterion * Extraordinary -- Aaron Bastani, Novara Media Excellent ... Gavin Stamp attempts to reclaim the half-timbered semi of the Twenties and Thirties for the British cultural imagination * Unherd * This posthumous volume is the masterpiece [ Stamp] did not publish in his lifetime. It puts his memory on a new plane * Englesberg Ideas * Love it or hate it, [ interwar Britain] was a period full of personality: a changing society recovering from war and the Depression, hungry for a different future. There is fascination in their built footprints -- Libby Purves * The Times * Thrilling ... Interwar looks to redress the imbalance Stamp saw in our architectural history - namely, that there was more to the interbellum period than modernism. Taking in everything from the Egyptian revival to the ubiquitous Tudorbethan, this handsome title makes the case for a more dynamic and diverse view of the past * The Modern House * Stamp was a superb writer with an unmatchable knowledge of the period concerned... Interwar is most definitely a proper book, and a wonderful memorial to a great writer. * Art Newspaper * A rebuttal of the modernist-centric view of interwar British architecture. It was much more diverse than people think, [ Stamp] argues, and studying the lesser-known movements is key to understanding the period * Apollo * A provocative as well as a stimulating book ... Thoroughly recommended * Context *
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