Wells Coates Textile Gavin Stamp

Gavin Stamp

Modern Buildings in London celebrates the character of buildings that were immediately recognisable as 'modern' in 1964

revealing a woman of great energy

architects and designers whom they commissioned

many of which are still relevant to today

Wells Coates Textile Gavin StampPaperback, 160 pages By Elizabeth Darling This book is a captivating account of the life and work of Wells Coates, one of the pioneers of British Modernism. Born in Japan to missionary parents from Canada, Coates studied engineering in Canada and England before deciding that architecture was his passion. Despite having no formal training, Coates went on to become a leading architect of his generation working in Britain in the inter war years. An