Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing Kazimir Malevich the Nat West Tower and

the Nat West Tower and King's Reach Tower

In a career spanning sixty years

historians and shapers of the future

from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st

But can these homes be updated for contemporary living while maintaining the integrity of the original architecture

Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing Kazimir Malevich the Nat West Tower andHardback, 312 pages By Mark Swenarton The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane set out a model of street based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day.