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Black Country Type ll.

Photographs by Tom Hicks

Hardcover: 144 pages, Colour, 250x200mm

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Are you in Edinburgh this weekend? Then don't miss this.
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Black Country Type ll.

Photographs by Tom Hicks

Hardcover: 144 pages, Colour, 250x200mm

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Free tours on the modernist app
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A black and white photograph of the brutalist Eros House in Catford

Eros House, Catford, Lewisham

1963

Rodney Gordon of the Owen Luder Partnership

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Can you learn to love the ugliest buildings in Scotland? Some might say these buildings are among the ugliest in Scotland. But here’s a chance to give them another look, from a different angle, and maybe…

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Cover of "Projecting British Design". The book showcases images from the Design Council Slide Collection

Design Council 35mm slide showing Motorail plastic cutlery

Design Council 35mm slide showing three suitcases by S.E.Norris & Co.

Just got my copy of this 🥰 As an ex Art & Design slide librarian, this little book is a joy & a gem. The collection I managed included many Design Council slide packs, & when digital took over & it was disposed of, I kept some slides ♥︎ the-modernist.org/products/pro... @themodernist.bsky.social

In last week's newsletter I mentioned an exhibition in Bristol.

The lovely people @themodernist.bsky.social are offering a guided tour in Feb. Extremely limited places. More details here: the-modernist.org/products/bau...

We love getting parcels from @themodernist.bsky.social

This week's included a lovely pile of 'Modernist Churches of Scotland'

and Commonplace - a new photo zine produced in collaboration with Uhm! Publishing

Issue One: Brighton and Issue Two: Blackpool Fronts are now in stock

A painting of a concrete stairwell at a brutalist car park.

New exhibition. Opens today.
Here Where You Are Standing.
Paintings by Peter James Houghton.
at the modernist, 58 Port Street, Manchester, M1 2EQ.
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twenty twenty five we've exhibited stockport pigeons and concrete sound mirrors, and delivered activities from bristol to glasgow. We've mooched from Marylebone to Peterlee, attended book fairs from Edinburgh to London,...

What we got up to in twenty twenty five...
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Next on our Arch-vent Calendar is Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter.

Published by @themodernist.bsky.social it features 150 buildings from across the nation whose architects embraced Modernist principles to create a distinctive architectural identity which shaped our towns & cities

V&A Storehouse

Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter.

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Do you need a kalender? Yes! You need this one.

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Our pictogram Christmas cards are available now.
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Song of the Suburbs — John Grindrod. Screening of Graham Williamson’s short documentary film Song of the Suburbs , with an introduction to the film by Graham Williamson and a discussion between Graham and John Grindrod. A Manches...

Join filmmaker Graham Williamson and I, and @themodernist.bsky.social in Manchester, to see Graham's brilliant short film Song of the Suburbs, and to hear us in conversation about suburbia in all of its weirdness www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events/song-...

Let’s celebrate Scotland’s endangered modernist architecture.
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Photo of a journal article

Illustrations of errata slips

Cover of the modernist magazine

Tidying up and reunited with no 32 of @themodernist.bsky.social journal as edited by #RuthLang. My contrib was an exploration of the contemporary not-seeing of Elizabeth Denby.

Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:

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Modernist Scotland
Out now
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Modernist Scotland - available now.
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We'll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, with over 90 artist publishers, all weekend. Come and see.
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Cabin Crew - This new book, Cabin Crew, retells the story of Hird & Brooks and its influences. Written in a lively and engaging style, it examines the people who ran the firm, the ethos behind their work, and how they became attracted to — then obsessed by — the pursuit of the perfect holiday house.

Honda e parked in front of Caban Corgi in Penlan Holiday park

Carmen the Podenco in the beautiful Caban Corgi in Penlan Holiday park

Staying in Penlan, in Caban Corgi as featured in @themodernist.bsky.social Cabin Crew and it's utterly fab. #midCenturyMiniBreak

Meet the modernists… It began as an art-project inspired by the humble British red telephone box.

Full story: vitsoe.com/voice/modernist

Pictures:
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Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

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The interior of a large brutalist concrete church. The walls are clad over the alter with wavy panels of wood, and the ceiling is a zigzag with light streaming in through the glass. The cork flooring is picking up the sunlight, as are the long pine benches.

I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with.

Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol
(Ronald H Sims, 1968)

Access arranged by @themodernist.bsky.social

The modernist book fair is back..
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BRUTAL Bristol Group exhibition BRUTAL Bristol is a collaborative exhibition that celebrates the power and geometry of Bristol's overlooked brutalist architecture. Born from the success of Tom Benjamin's BRUTAL Bris...

Brutal Bristol exhibition...from 08.10.25.
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Museum of London and Bastion House, City of London – Powell & Moya (1976-77)

BREAKING NEWS: The campaign to save Bastion House and the former Museum of London (Powell & Moya, 1976-77) has won the right to present its case to the High Court. The Judicial Review will challenge the City of London's decision to demolish the buildings.

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