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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 4 _aNA997.T48
_bP76 2025
100 1 _aProctor, Robert,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPercy Thomas :
_bmodern architecture as a national service /
_cRobert Proctor.
260 _c2025
264 1 _aCardiff :
_bUniversity of Wales Press,
_c2025
300 _axviii, 291 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe architecture of Wales series.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. His architectural practice, Sir Percy Thomas & Son, designed much of the post-1945 welfare state and industry in Wales and beyond. In the late twentieth century, the Percy Thomas Partnership specialised in complex healthcare, industrial and public buildings, becoming an international practice. This comprehensive, meticulously-researched history examines the architecture of Percy Thomas in depth for the first time, and explores its wider social and political significance. Arguing that the practice sustained an ethical approach to architecture as a 'national service' for the benefit of society, this book gives new insights into the role of the architect and the changing relationships between the built environment and the state throughout the century. Its unique perspective from Wales promises to reshape our understanding of modern architecture."-- back cover.
600 1 0 _aThomas, Percy,
_cSir,
_d1883-1969.
600 1 7 _aThomas, Percy,
_cSir,
_d1883-1969.
_2fast
650 0 _aArchitects
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
650 7 _aArchitects.
_2fast
651 7 _aGreat Britain.
_2fast
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2fast
655 0 _aPrint books.
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776 0 8 _iebook version :
_z9781837722129.
830 0 _aArchitecture of Wales.
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