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A notable project in this regard, and also from the ration of vernacular materials, window elements, and 1950s was Roehampton Lane, built on the outskirts of roofs. However, as a part of this complex, although London by the London County Council Housing Divi- otherwise adjacent to it and dating slightly later from sion and project architects such as John Partridge, 1953, was Adalberto Libera’s mat building and apart- Whitfield Lewis, and Sir Leslie Martin. In an effort ment block ensemble, presenting quite another way to decentralize London’s post-war circumstances, of engaging housing and landscape.
Articulated façade. , which ically extruded ‘bedrock’ undergirding the artificial specialized in housing and inner-city projects respec- ‘ground’ plane above. Apart from these gestures, tively – the finalized master plan also ensured the con- another design feature alluding to the rivers and sig- tinuity of the grid across the blocks and the ground nificance of water in the Dutch landscape is the array plane, and the creation of a vista allowing views to of black and white mosaic tiles in sinuous curves, the water.
2 facilitating recuperation from livelihoods that other wise involved industrial and related toil. In effect, it was a merger of ‘town and countryside’ that was the underway, the subject of the landscape in hous- appropriate physical and spiritual repose for human ing became both more conspicuous and varied. habitation and, in one way or another, one that was The Garden Cities Aniene and Garbatella in Rome, embraced by those interested and active in reform- for example, were less a case of urban-rural merger, ing the working, social, and material conditions of particularly of an Italian small-town variety, as they the industrial era.