Walters Way & Segal Close : the architect Walter Segal and London's self-build communities : a look at two of London's most unusual streets / Alice Grahame, Taran Wilkhu.
Publisher: Zurich : Park Books, [2017] 2017Description: 232 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0029111556ISBN: 9783038600497 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Segal, Walter, -1985 | Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 20th century. -- England -- London | Architect-designed houses -- History -- 20th century. -- England -- London | Self-help housing -- History -- 20th century. -- England -- London | Architecture
| Individual architects & architectural firms | Architecture: residential buildings, domestic buildings | City & town planning: architectural aspects | London, Greater London | History of architecture | Architecture and Planning | Walters Way (London, England) | Segal Close (London, England)DDC classification: 720.92 LOC classification: NA7332Summary: The story of an unusual housing estate in south London, designed by Walter Segal and its 'anarchist' inhabitants, showing all the houses on the estate both during their construction to in their present state. Walters Way and Segal Close are two tiny roads in Lewisham, south London. The twenty homes they contain are unusual, both in the way they look and in the way they were conceived and built. Designed by German-born modernist architect Walter Segal, they were part of a council-run scheme that allowed ordinary people to build their own homes. Thirty years on they are still standing and have been adapted to meet the needs of today's residents. This book by two residents of Walters Way and Segal Close, journalist Alice Grahame and photographer Taran Wilkhu, tells the story of how the streets came to be built and of the estate's development since. Neither Grahame nor Wilkhu are the initial inhabitants of their respective homes, but when they moved in they both became instantly fascinated by the story of how and why they were made. The book was created in collaboration with the occupants of both streets, who all opened their houses and shared their insights of life on a Segal estate. 'Walter Segal was nothing if not a holistic pioneer. He recognised that architecture serves one noble purpose: social health. His schemes, projects, community groups, systems and designs all served, and continue to serve, the creation of that magic social glue.' -Kevin McCloud. Designer, writer and presenter of Channel 4's Grand Designs
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Walters Way and Segal Close are two tiny roads in Lewisham, South London. The twenty homes they contain are unusual--both in the way they look and the way they were built. Designed by modernist architect Walter Segal, the homes on Walters Way and Segal Close were part of a plan that allowed ordinary people to build their own homes. Thirty years on, many of the homes are still standing and have been adapted to meet today's needs.
Written by two residents of Walters Way and Segal Close, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of how the streets came to be and how the developments have changed since. Neither Alice Grahame nor Taran Wilkhu are the original inhabitants of their respective homes, but they were instantly fascinated upon moving in by the story of how and why the homes came to be. Walters Way and Segal Close was created in collaboration with all of the residents of both streets, who opened their homes and shared their insights about life on the two streets.
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The story of an unusual housing estate in south London, designed by Walter Segal and its 'anarchist' inhabitants, showing all the houses on the estate both during their construction to in their present state. Walters Way and Segal Close are two tiny roads in Lewisham, south London. The twenty homes they contain are unusual, both in the way they look and in the way they were conceived and built. Designed by German-born modernist architect Walter Segal, they were part of a council-run scheme that allowed ordinary people to build their own homes. Thirty years on they are still standing and have been adapted to meet the needs of today's residents. This book by two residents of Walters Way and Segal Close, journalist Alice Grahame and photographer Taran Wilkhu, tells the story of how the streets came to be built and of the estate's development since. Neither Grahame nor Wilkhu are the initial inhabitants of their respective homes, but when they moved in they both became instantly fascinated by the story of how and why they were made. The book was created in collaboration with the occupants of both streets, who all opened their houses and shared their insights of life on a Segal estate. 'Walter Segal was nothing if not a holistic pioneer. He recognised that architecture serves one noble purpose: social health. His schemes, projects, community groups, systems and designs all served, and continue to serve, the creation of that magic social glue.' -Kevin McCloud. Designer, writer and presenter of Channel 4's Grand Designs
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