Tag: 1970s

Inner and outer space: J. G. Ballard – “High Rise” and Kim Stanley Robinson – “Aurora”

December 29, 2015

The imminent release of a Ben Wheatley’s film of this novel led me to re reading “High Rise”for the first time since its original publication in 1975. “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during … More Inner and outer space: J. G. Ballard – “High Rise” and Kim Stanley Robinson – “Aurora”

January books: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain

January 26, 2015

This book along with David Kynaston’s “Modernity Britain” has helped feed my interest in and knowledge of architecture and housing in postwar Britain. I grew up in a new town and have always been fascinated with modern buildings, though at the time I hadn’t realised I was living in a gigantic social experiment. John Grindrod … More January books: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain