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 Show More
by Ana Francisco Sutherland.
Park, 415 pp., £35, July 2024,
Dulwich: Mid-Century Oasis
by Paul Davis, Ian McInnes and Catherine Samy.
RIBA, 207 pp., £27, September 2023,978 1 915722 31 7 Show More
by Paul Davis, Ian McInnes and Catherine Samy.
RIBA, 207 pp., £27, September 2023,
“... There are around a dozen Span estates in Blackheath. ‘If Eric Lyons is the modern Nash,’ Ian Nairn wrote, ‘then this is his Regent’s Park.’ The comparison also captures something of what distinguishes this housing from the dense, street-block structure of Nash’s plans for the Prince Regent. Like Nash’s work, Span housing is ... ”