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‘Variety is necessary; so is contrast’: West Burton as a rural picturesque ornament ‘Variety is necessary; so is contrast’: West Burton as a rural picturesque ornament
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Modernity and the post-war picturesque revival Modernity and the post-war picturesque revival
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Beyond the picturesque: the power station in an ancient landscape Beyond the picturesque: the power station in an ancient landscape
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‘A valid, new twentieth-century experience of landscape’? ‘A valid, new twentieth-century experience of landscape’?
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6 The Post-war Power Station and the Persistence of an English Landscape Tradition
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Published:May 2023
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Abstract
This chapter will examine the aesthetics of the design, arrangement and siting of two post-war power stations: West Burton, which was built on the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire border between 1961 and 1969, and Didcot in Oxfordshire, which was completed in 1970. It will firstly consider the manner in which West Burton was designed as an attempt to ‘naturalise’ this modern, but otherwise quite alien, development within the surrounding lowland countryside. From there, the chapter will go on to argue that the design of West Burton, and the way it was represented in journals like The Architectural Review was defined by a working awareness of the traditions and principles of eighteenth-century Picturesque theory and of the modernist revival of those ideas – specifically Nikolaus Pevsner’s belief that the aesthetic potential of functional building planning should especially be conditioned by an attention to site and viewpoint. It will then be seen how Didcot was pictorially organised with respect to surrounding historical landscape features, and how this was reflective of a postwar ‘neo-romantic’ notion that past, present, and future could coalesce in the English countryside.
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