Designer and author Stefi Orazi has produced 'Perambulations', a series of risograph walking guides to modernist houses covering different parts of London (and indeed Brussels). As a lockdown treat we explored Blackheath with map in hand, an area known for 20th century housing from Span Developments 'as well as several individual houses by Britain’s most revered modernist architects including Peter Moro, Patrick Gwynne and Walter Greave'.
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| (detail from map) |
Yes we saw lots of cool modernist buildings and some very grand older ones too. But the real adventure to be had from following somebody else's map is that it takes you to places you haven't seen before. I thought I knew Blackheath reasonably well but there were whole streets and estates I was unaware of.
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| Morden Road SE3 |
Sometime Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan lived at 17 Montpelier Road SE3 in the 1970s. Looks to me like the picture below may have been taken at back of the house.
(The latest in the Perambulations series covers West Dulwich and Forest Hill)
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