The Modernist #57
200 x 200 mm, 72 pages
Manchester, UK
Quarterly
First published 2011
Editor: Hanna Neate
Founding/lead editors: Jack Hale & Eddy Rhead
Design: Johnson INC & Lily Platt
Published by The Modernist Society, the small-format and currently square-shaped The Modernist (its shape changes regularly) explores 20th century architecture and design via quarterly, themed-issues.
Each year they move to another initial letter for their themes: 2026 is ‘P,’ and this issue addresses ‘Public,’ a realm central to twentieth century Modernism. Yet, as the introduction to the issues points out, ‘Beneath it all runs the larger story: the rise and then the steady unravelling of, investment in public housing.’
Visit the Academic Gorky Theatre, the largest dramatic theatre in the USSR; Leeds Picture Library, a resource lending artworks to the public; Gateshead car park; a rare Modernist English pub (‘Great design doesn’t necessarily make for a good pub); and enjoy Lo Parkin’s drawings of post-war architecture.