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in 1936 focusing on the use of concrete and this included a further eleven English houses. These contributions helped lay the basis for the postwar English fascination with concrete. In 1937 he published
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which illustrated houses from a number of his fellows from the MARS group. The book was split into chapters on brick and stone, timber frame and concrete. It included a foreword by
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visit in 1931 and initially collaborated on the book with the Czech architect Karel Honzík. He wrote a follow-up article in the
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style, he made numerous contacts with leading European architects while contributing to
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Building the Post-war World: Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain
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Pile, John F. (2005) . "The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe".
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in the 1930s, and in 1933 was secretary and founder member of the
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Bullock, Nicholas (2002). "Rethinking the new architecture".
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Yorke & Gibberd, Francis, R S & Frederick (1937).
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Seven cottages, Stratford-on-Avon (1939) with F.W.B. Yorke
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One of the first native British architects to design in a
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Rectory at Wootton by Woodstock, Oxfordshire (1954)
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Index

English
architect
author
modernist
Architects' Journal
MARS Group
Hungarian
Bauhaus
Marcel Breuer
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall
Eugene Rosenberg
Cyril Mardall (Sjöström)
Gatwick Airport
Stratford-upon-Avon
Birmingham School of Architecture
Richard Sheppard
Frederick Gibberd
Colin Penn
Robert Furneaux Jordan
Prague
William Lethaby
Frederick Gibberd
Torilla
Gane Pavilion
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer
Listed Building
Marcel Breuer
Sutton
Marcel Breuer

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