Современная архитектура. Гусева О.Г - 18 стр.

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a rock-faced rustic
a blocking course
a curator’s office
a stone-flagged terrace
a pergola
a rocky base
Portland ashlar
a lunette
a clasp
an adjacent
a grid
a buff stucco
a carrel window
a metal bar
a watercolour
a peaked oriel
a darker
Venetian window
The Maiden Lane Housing Estate
The Maiden Lane housing estate in Camden is an exercise in low-rise concrete
late Modernism by the London Borough of Camden's Department of Architecture
(project architects: Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth). Shortly after it was completed
in 1982, it was described by Alvin Boyarsky in Architectural Review as "the very best
in British housing and as civilized as any recent European solutions". Six years later
the Maiden Lane Community is said to have broken down completely and the police is
afraid of an outbreak of serious public disorder. To what extent is the architecture to
blame?
The opinion of the tenants: "A mental institution", "Labyrinth, jungle". "A
prison camp, just rows and rows and rows". "Depressing white boxes with black win-
dows". "Gestapo headquarters." "The architect? He designed it without the intention of
living in it." "To me it looks like a modern prison."
It would seem that architecture is to blame. Clearly the AR's critics (Alvin Bo-
yarsky and John Winter) were wrong. Clearly the architects who design this sort of
building are out of touch with ordinary people. And the consequences can be dis-
astrous. It shows that there is something fundamentally inhuman about Modern
Movement Architecture. Architects should begin listening to the people.
This is the view taken by John Thompson who prepared a report on the estate.
Colin Davies does not quite agree with him.
Is it really as simple as this? The report sets out a clear and thorough analysis of the
estate's problems. But it also provides data for those who refuse to believe that archi-
tecture can be held responsible for the breakdown of inner-city communities.

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