#spagreenestate

It's Berthold Lubetkin's birthday today! A life-long communist, he believed "nothing is too good for ordinary people" and designed buildings it the same spirit. Between the wars he paradoxically built for the well-off, only after the war he finally got chance to built for the ordinary folk. Shown Spa Green Estate, Hallfied Estate and Sivill House. Illustrations are from Modern London book.⁠

It's Berthold Lubetkin's birthday! A life-long communist, he believed "nothing is too good for ordinary people" and designed buildings it the same spirit. Between the wars he paradoxically built for the high-heeled, but after the war he finally got chance to built for the ordinary folk. Shown Spa Green Estate, Hallfied Estate and Sivill House. Illustrations are from Modern London book.

In the austerity of the post-war years, the neat blocks of Spa Green Estate seemed like they just landed from the outer space. The estate aged better than most of it's modernist contemporaries.