Born in June 1958 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, she attended Bramcote Hills Grammar School before reading history at Bristol University. It was the derelict terraces and docklands of Bristol that first drew Harwood to Bristol, but the city was also the home of Berthold Lubetkin and it was an exhibition of his work and the Thirties exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 that kindled an interest in modernism, and the modern buildings of her childhood – schools and the Nottingham Playhouse – that had been so influential to her education, having come from a modest background.
Career
Looking for a career, she took a temporary job in January 1984 at what was to become English Heritage, and has stayed there ever since, learning most from an inspiring day release course in Building Conservation at the Architectural Association. In 1987 she joined what had been the Greater London Council Historic Buildings Division, by then absorbed into English Heritage, just as research was needed on post-war buildings, and between 1996 and 2004 was responsible for most of the organisation's recommendations for listing buildings from the period after 1945, as well as for research programmes on earlier cinemas and flats. She completed a PhD on the building of London's South Bank at Bristol University in 2010.
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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Elain Harwood news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Elain Harwood born June 1958 is an architectural historian with Historic England and a specialist in post Second World War English architecture 1 2 3 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Selected publications 3 1 1990s 3 2 2000s 3 3 2010s 4 References 5 External linksEarly life EditBorn in June 1958 in Beeston Nottinghamshire she attended Bramcote Hills Grammar School before reading history at Bristol University It was the derelict terraces and docklands of Bristol that first drew Harwood to Bristol but the city was also the home of Berthold Lubetkin and it was an exhibition of his work and the Thirties exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 that kindled an interest in modernism and the modern buildings of her childhood schools and the Nottingham Playhouse that had been so influential to her education having come from a modest background Career EditLooking for a career she took a temporary job in January 1984 at what was to become English Heritage and has stayed there ever since learning most from an inspiring day release course in Building Conservation at the Architectural Association In 1987 she joined what had been the Greater London Council Historic Buildings Division by then absorbed into English Heritage just as research was needed on post war buildings and between 1996 and 2004 was responsible for most of the organisation s recommendations for listing buildings from the period after 1945 as well as for research programmes on earlier cinemas and flats She completed a PhD on the building of London s South Bank at Bristol University in 2010 Her substantial review of postwar English architecture Space Hope and Brutalism won the 2016 Alice Davis Hitchcock prize of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 4 Selected publications Edit1990s Edit Exploring England s Heritage London London Her Majesty s Stationery Office in association with English Heritage 1991 ISBN 0113000324 with Andrew Saint Tayler and Green Architects 1938 1973 The Spirit of Place in Modern Housing The Prince of Wales s Institute of Architecture London 1998 with Alan Powers ISBN 1 898465 21 52000s Edit Festival of Britain 2001 With Alan Powers Twentieth Century Architecture England A Guide to Post war Listed Buildings Historic England London 2003 The Heroic Period of Conservation 2006 With Alan Powers Twentieth Century Architecture The Sixties Life Style Architecture 2006 With Alan Powers Housing the Twentieth Century Nation 2008 With Alan Powers Nottingham City Guide 2008 5 Pevsner Architectural Guides City Guides 2010s Edit England s Schools History Architecture and Adaptation 2010 Informed Conservation Chamberlin Powell and Bon in the 20th Century Architects series RIBA Enterprises London 2011 ISBN 9781859463970 Twentieth Century Architecture Oxford and Cambridge Volume 11 2013 with Alan Powers England s Post War Listed Buildings 2015 with James O Davies Houses Regional Practice and Local Character 2015 with Alan Powers Space Hope and Brutalism English Architecture 1945 1975 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2015 6 7 8 The English Public Library 1945 85 Introductions to Heritage Assets 2016 Pomo Postmodern Buildings in Britain 2017 With Geraint Franklin ISBN 9781849944502 Erno Goldfinger 2017 With Alan Powers in the 20th Century Architects series Art Deco Britain Buildings of the Inter War Years Pavilion Books London 2019 ISBN 9781849945271References Edit Elain Harwood buildingconservation aaschool ac uk Architectural Association School of Architecture Retrieved 12 August 2018 Elain Harwood 2 buildingconservation aaschool ac uk Architectural Association School of Architecture Retrieved 12 August 2018 Singmaster Deborah 5 October 2000 A life in architecture Elain Harwood Architects Journal London Metropolis International Retrieved 12 August 2018 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion SAHGB Archived from the original on 1 August 2019 Retrieved 25 November 2019 Nottingham by Elain Harwood Yale Books UK Jonathan Meades Waddling Towards Modernisation Space Hope amp Brutalism A Conversation with Elain Harwood Yale University Press London Blog 5 September 2015 A crushing case for brutalism with the people left out The Spectator 10 October 2015 External links Edithttp www bbc co uk programmes p03s8w55 https c20society org uk 2015 08 03 c20 historian elain harwood rides the london surrey 100 This biographical article about a British art historian is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elain Harwood amp oldid 1118944766, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
