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I, The World, The Devil and The Flesh: Manplan, Civilia and H. de C. Hastings

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13602365.2012.724854

1466-4410

Erdem Erten,

Architecture and Cultural Influences

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements I would like to thank the anonymous referees, as well as Barnabas Calder, Gillian Darley and Steve Parnell for their comments on earlier versions of this paper, Alan Powers for his most valuable constructive criticism throughout its writing and Mathew Aitchison, John Macarthur and the Architecture History Theory Criticism Research Center of the University of Queensland for inviting me to present the first version of this paper at the Townscape Symposium in London, July, 2011. Notes Plans for the recycling plant were abandoned, after strong protests from the public, in January, 2009: see Claire Harrison, ‘Dumped Forever’, 16/01/2009; http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/News/DUMPED-FOREVER.htm See Colin D. A. Boyne, ‘H de C Hastings’; http://www.oxforddnb.com/ Susan Lasdun, ‘H de C Reviewed’,' The Architectural Review, 200 (September, 1996), pp. 68–72. I was provided with a copy courtesy of Priscilla Hastings. See Clive Bell, Art (London, Chatto & Windus, 1931; 1st. ed. 1914). Ivor de Wolfe (pseudonym of H. de C. Hastings), The Unnatural History of Man; unpublished manuscript, p. 3. Ibid. Ibid., pp. 4–8 (italics mine). Ibid., p. 577. The Editors, ‘The Second Half Century’, The Architectural Review, 101 (January, 1947), p. 21. In his interview tape with Susan Lasdun, Hastings states ‘I have always been a Tory’. According to Martin Wiener, Harold Macmillan, at the time a member of the House of Commons and prime minister in 1957, had insisted back in 1936 that ‘Toryism has always been a form of paternal Socialism’. See Martin Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 108. Julia Stapleton, Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain since 1850 (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001), p. 119. Hastings refers to Ernest Barker's ‘Traditions of Civility’ on p. 567 of his manuscript: see Ernest Barker, Traditions of Civility; Eight Essays (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1948). See J. M. Richards, ‘A Theoretical Basis for Physical Planning’, in The Architectural Review, 91 (February, 1942), p. 39. See The Editors, ‘The Second Half Century’, op. cit. See Dennis Dworkin, Cultural Marxism In Postwar Britain:History,The New Left, And The Origins Of Cultural Studies (Durham, Duke University Press, 19), p. 32. Dworkin's study establishes the active role of the Marxist historians group in this interpretation and its influence on the development of cultural studies. The group's defence of the progressive tradition was apparent in its involvement in the two major English historiographic controversies of the 1950s: the gentry's role in the English Revolution and the social consequences of the early Industrial Revolution. For more on this, see ibid., p. 19. H. de C. Hastings, undated, ‘Thoughts on Landscape and Democracy’, p. 1. This document is an earlier draft for the 1949 Townscape article in Hastings's personal archive. Hubert de Cronin Hastings, The Alternative Society: Software for the Nineteen-Eighties (London, David & Charles Limited, 1980), p. 103 See the article by Alan Powers in this Issue. H. de C. Hastings, The Unnatural History of Man, op. cit., pp. 292–293. See S. Lasdun, ‘H de C Reviewed’, op. cit.; Priscilla Hastings confirmed Lasdun's account in an interview with the Author in 2002. In 1929 J.D. Bernal published a philosophical study, The World, The Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul.' Bernal, a famous scientist, was a frequent contributor to architecture periodicals in 1946 on science and architecture, and worked at Birkbeck after 1938. The infernal triad is a recurring theme in the poetry of Spencer and Milton. See Patrick Cullen, Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975). Gordon Cullen, ‘A scheme for the centre of Birmingham’, in The Architectural Review, 109 (February, 1951), pp. 91–97. Later, Cullen produced two studies in collaboration with Bristol University: ‘Dursley’, in The Architectural Review, 120 (July, 1956), pp. 21–23 and ‘Trowbridge’, The Architectural Review,123 (February, 1958), pp. 114–117. See also the correspondence section, entitled ‘Townscape spreading to schools’, in the September, 1956, Issue of the AR. See the articles by Alan Powers and Eric Ghenoiu in this Issue. See the introductory article by Mathew Aitchison in this Issue. See Simon Esterson, ‘The AR's Manplan is a tactile reminder of a time when magazines lived dangerously’; http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=119&fid The Author wishes to thank Steve Parnell for this information. 1.Theory of Contacts/a. Town, a complex of contacts/b. Town planning and the resolution of those/c.Townscape and the art of interpreting that resolution in visual terms. 2. The English interpretation a.New Towns into Garden City/b. Absurdity of this solution/c. The fallacy of the small garden 3. The European tradition a. transition: the town wall/ b. invitation: the town gate/ c. introduction: narrow street/d. arrival: the town square/e. protection: the covered piazza. See Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic? (London, The Architectural Press, 1966), pp. 74–75. On this, see also Matthew Aitchison, Visual Planning and Exterior Furnishing: A Critical History Of The Early Townscape Movement,1930 To 1949 (PhD dissertation, University of Queensland, 2009), pp. 230–234. See I. Nairn's Foreword in, Ivor de Wolfe, ed., Civilia: The End of Suburban Man (London, The Architectural Press, 1971), p. 3. Ibid., p. 21. See the brilliant recontextualisation of Civilia and Collage City by John Macarthur, The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and other Irregularities (London, Routledge, 2007), pp. 215–224. See ‘Civilia: the professionals comment’, Architects' Journal, 153 (June, 1971), pp. 1452–1455. Ibid. See The Ecologist, 2 (January, 1972), p. 2. Ibid.