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3 unusual facts about Berthold Lubetkin


Berthold Lubetkin

Dudley Zoo consisted of twelve animal enclosures and was a unique example of early Modernism in the UK.

He continued to participate in the debates of Constructivism, designing a trade pavilion for the USSR in Bordeaux and participating in the Palace of the Soviets competition, for which his entry was shortlisted.

These schemes, the Cranbrook Estate, Dorset Estate (which featured the tower Sivill House) and the Lakeview Estate all made increased use of precast concrete façade panels while developing the idiom of complicated abstract facades and Constructivist staircases established in the 1940s.



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