![]() ![]() She was not easily cowed.” Designs after 1945 in traditional styles, shunned by most advocates of modernism, were not excluded, helping to soften the opposition.Įlain had been involved in the Thirties Society and in 1992 it became the Twentieth Century Society (C20). The enterprise was controversial and her then colleague Martin Cherry recalled how “while sometimes getting on the wrong side of management by upsetting ministers in conveying truth to power, she was the single major force during those years of changing attitudes to modern architecture. Elain soon became the group’s linchpin, visiting every site by train and bicycle and winning converts by her depth of knowledge and force of personality. ![]() In 1992 English Heritage set up its Post-War Listing Steering Group, chaired by Bridget Cherry, which operated for a 10-year period and conducted methodical research – in-house and by consultants – based on building types (schools, housing, churches, town halls, etc). ![]() With Saint, she co-authored the buildings guide London (1991) in the series Exploring England’s Heritage. Her colleague and mentor at English Heritage, Andrew Saint, published his groundbreaking study of postwar school buildings in 1987 and, from a broad background of interest in Victorian and 20th-century architecture, Elain increasingly specialised in the years after 1945. ![]()
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