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- Shand's first book on architecture, Modern Theatres and Cinemas was published in 1930 and featured many of those buildings he had encountered in Germany during the late 1920s, arguing that there the cinema had emerged as a separate design typology, not an adaptation of traditional theatre design.
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Philip Morton Shand (21 January 1888 – 30 April 1960), known as P. Morton Shand, was a British journalist, architecture critic (an early proponent of modernism), wine and food writer, entrepreneur and pomologist. He was the paternal grandfather of Queen Camilla.
Jan 27, 2024 · The book was written by John Betjeman’s daughter, Candida Lycett Green, with a “thoughtful preamble” from the prince. Shand knew the property well, having first seen it while foxhunting in the 1970s when it was vacant and run-down before the Prince of Wales bought it.
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Philip Morton Shand was an English author, who contributed to the fields of literature, architecture, journalism, and food and wine. In the 1920s, while living in France, he wrote a series of books about food and wine, A Book of French Wines (1925), A Book of Food (1927), A Book of Other Wines – Than French (1929), Bacchus or Wine To-Day and ...
Oct 25, 2022 · Architectural critic Philip Morton Shand (known always as P. Morton Shand, 1888–1960) conceived the exhibition and led the international promotion of Aalto before and after the show. By shifting the focus from the designer to the critic, this article argues that Aalto’s success was the result of a concerted effort to establish a domestic ...
Apr 1, 2019 · Gropius himself had a headstart: “His arrival to Britain was masterminded by Philip Morton Shand, an architecture critic and modernist enthusiast,” says Fiona MacCarthy, author of a new ...
first articulated in in 1934, in Philip Morton Shand’s series in the AR, ‘A Scenario for Human Drama’,8 and then in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Pioneers of the Modern Movement, published by Faber in 1936.9 Both Shand and Pevsner established a narrative of modernism having developed from the Arts and Crafts movement in
Sep 28, 2023 · Among the most influential architectural networkers of his time, Shand exerted an influence through his many contacts. Exploring his unstudied correspondence reveals new topics while also presenting fresh perspectives on well-known figures.
