Elizabeth Darling trained as an art and architectural historian at University College London. Since then she has taught, researched and published in the history of 19th and 20th century architecture. She is now a Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University.

'Recommended reading for all those with a serious interest in the development of Modern architecture in Britain.' - Twentieth Century Society Journal'The book is essential for those studying modernist architectural practice in context. It does for the inter-war period what Andrew Saint’s Towards a Social Architecture and Nicolas Bullock’s Building the Post-War World have done for the post-war period.' - Urban History Review

• Introduction: Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction Part 1: A New Spirit 1. The Conditions for an Architecture for To-Day Part 2: Rhetorical Modernism 2. A New Landscape of Health 3. Modern Dwellings for Modern Needs 4. New Homes for Old 5. The Modern Flat Part 3: Towards a New Britain 6. A Living Contemporary Architecture

Elizabeth Darling trained as an art and architectural historian at University College London. Since then she has taught, researched and published in the history of 19th and 20th century architecture. She is now a Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University.

'Recommended reading for all those with a serious interest in the development of Modern architecture in Britain.' - Twentieth Century Society Journal'The book is essential for those studying modernist architectural practice in context. It does for the inter-war period what Andrew Saint’s Towards a Social Architecture and Nicolas Bullock’s Building the Post-War World have done for the post-war period.' - Urban History Review

• Introduction: Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction Part 1: A New Spirit 1. The Conditions for an Architecture for To-Day Part 2: Rhetorical Modernism 2. A New Landscape of Health 3. Modern Dwellings for Modern Needs 4. New Homes for Old 5. The Modern Flat Part 3: Towards a New Britain 6. A Living Contemporary Architecture

Elizabeth Darling trained as an art and architectural historian at University College London. Since then she has taught, researched and published in the history of 19th and 20th century architecture. She is now a Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University.

'Recommended reading for all those with a serious interest in the development of Modern architecture in Britain.' - Twentieth Century Society Journal'The book is essential for those studying modernist architectural practice in context. It does for the inter-war period what Andrew Saint’s Towards a Social Architecture and Nicolas Bullock’s Building the Post-War World have done for the post-war period.' - Urban History Review

• Introduction: Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction Part 1: A New Spirit 1. The Conditions for an Architecture for To-Day Part 2: Rhetorical Modernism 2. A New Landscape of Health 3. Modern Dwellings for Modern Needs 4. New Homes for Old 5. The Modern Flat Part 3: Towards a New Britain 6. A Living Contemporary Architecture