Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England scented candle By Elain Harwood for C20

By Elain Harwood for C20

Taking readers from the prewar era to the 1960s

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Council housing is as much a part of the capital as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace

Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England scented candle By Elain Harwood for C20Hardback, 208 pages By Simon Phipps During the post war years the North of England saw the building of some of the most aspirational, enlightened and successful modernist architecture in the world. For the first time, a single photographic book captures those buildings, in all their power and progressive ambition. Over the last few years acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps has travelled and sought out the publicly commissioned architecture of the post