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At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow

The exhibition 'At Home in Britain' re-examined how we live and speculated on the future of housing in Britain. Taking the cottage, the terraced house and the flat as a starting point and using  the RIBA Collections as stimulus, six newly commissioned works from contemporary architecture practices Jamie Fobert ArchitectsMaison Edouard FrançoisMecanooStudio Weave and vPPR transform these three familiar housing types to reflect the way we live and work in the 21st century.

Here RIBApix features three galleries of these housing types to highlight the huge range of material held in the RIBA Collections. Discover the remarkable variety of cottages often shaped by locally available building materials. Explore the development of flats from model housing and seminal Modern Movement blocks including Highpoint One to post war reconstruction and notorious housing failures such as Hutchesontown C which had replaced the tenement blocks of the Gorbals. Witness how terraced housing functions at all levels of society and continues to be adapted in modern styles.

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Penthouse, Highpoint Two, North Hill, Highgate, London: the living room with home-made furniture seen from the entrance door

RIBA2406-2
Lubetkin & Tecton
NOTES: On completion the penthouse was occupied by Berthold and Margaret Lubetkin who furnished it with pieces made by themselves.

Isokon Flats, Lawn Road, Hampstead, London

RIBA2506-9
Coates, Wells Wintemute (1895-1958)

Housing, Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown C, Gorbals, Glasgow

RIBA2664-15
Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson
NOTES: Hutchesontown C was the name given to a so-called Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of the city of Glasgow, designed by Basil Spence in 1960-1965. The design of the central 20-storey block was inspired by Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, Marseille. It was demolished in 1993.

Barbican estate, City of London: full-scale mock-up of kitchen

RIBA2774-20
Chamberlin Powell & Bon
NOTES: This was a full-scale mock-up of a kitchen designed for the Barbican estate, built in the architect's studios.

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London

RIBA3514-62
Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)

Design for a gardener's cottage at Laverstoke House, Hampshire, for Melville Porter, MP: perspective

RIBA3996
Hardwick, Philip Charles (1822-1892)
NOTES: This drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1854 (no. 1180).

View from the cottage of Humphry Repton at Hare Street, Essex, after proposed alterations

RIBA6215
Repton, Humphry (1752-1818)
SOURCE: Humphry Repton. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (London, 1816), after p. 232

Grand Union Walk housing, Camden, London

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Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

Ainslie Place, New Town, Edinburgh: view from Great Stuart Street

RIBA10796
Graham, James Gillespie (1776-1855)

Design for a woodman's cottage

RIBA16355
Hall, John (fl. 1825)
SOURCE: John Hall. Novel designs for cottages, small farms and schools (London, 1825), design no. 11

Thatched cottages, Milton Abbas, Dorset

RIBA18190
Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796)
NOTES: The market town of Milton Abbas was demolished in its entirety by the Earl of Dochester between 1771 and 1790. He commissioned Capability Brown the plans for a new village, consisting mainly of cottages lining up the main street. The cottages were designed by Sir William Chambers.

Designs for peasant's huts

RIBA18970
Malton, James (1765-1803)
SOURCE: James Malton. An essay on British cottage architecture (London, 1798), pl. 3

Design for a cottage, Llangollen, Clwyd: elevations and plan

RIBA22002
NOTES: This drawing is by an unidentified 19th century English architect.

Demolition of Killingworth Towers estate, Killingworth, North Tyneside

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Northumberland County Council
NOTES: The building of Killingworth Township began in 1963, was undertaken by Northumberland County Council and was not sponsored by the Government. The demolition of this 3-tier housing estate of the township was undertaken by the Architects' Department of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside.

Byker Wall, Byker housing redevelopment, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: the balcony side overlooking the rows of traditional terraced houses

RIBA26399
Erskine, Ralph (1914-2005)
NOTES: This multi-family housing development was one of the first major examples in Britain of community architecture. Erskine oversaw the development of this project, begun in 1972 and completed in 1978, allowing for tenant cooperation and architectural innovation on a large scale.

Foundling housing scheme (Brunswick Centre), Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London: cross-section of a residential flat

RIBA35955
Hodgkinson, Patrick (1930-2016)
NOTES: This design incorporates pasted photographic images.

Design for the Brunswick Close Estate, Finsbury, London: aerial view of three housing tower blocks

RIBA36057
Emberton, Franck & Tardrew
NOTES: The Brunswick Close project was approved in 1956 and consisted of three 12-storey towers (Brunswick, Emberton and Wycliff Courts).
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