Form Follows Fun. Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925-1940

Responding to the current interest in modernism and packed with a substantial archive of photographs and other documentation, it relates the professional, entrepreneurial and institutional infrastructures affecting the pleasure industry’s architectural development and appearance in 1930s. A broad range of building through which the general public first experienced Modernism are covered, including: commercial holiday camps, cinemas and greyhound racing stadia municipal and governmental projects zoos, seaside pavilions, concert halls, and imperial and international exhibitions.