South London Modern

Owen Hatherley, 23 October 2025

Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich, London 1950-2000 
by Ana Francisco Sutherland.
Park, 415 pp., £35, July 2024, 978 3 03860 342 9
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Dulwich: Mid-Century Oasis 
by Paul Davis, Ian McInnes and Catherine Samy.
RIBA, 207 pp., £27, September 2023, 978 1 915722 31 7
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... and, especially, Blackheath, the list of architects’ self-designed houses is long: Peter Moro, Brian Meeking, David Branch (whose elegant, Miesian case study-style house has now been demolished), Leo Rubinstein, Paul Tvrtkovic, Ray Smith and Ronald Coleman. Most of these were deadpan little houses, in brick with exposed concrete frames, often with small ...