MoDA Reading List – J M Richards Collection

Scholarship relating to the work of James Maude Richards, compiled by staff at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Reading List

[Article] Kelly, J. (2015) ‘Vulgar Modernism: J. M. Richards, Modernism and the Vernacular in British Architecture’, Architectural history, 58, pp. 229–259. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00002641. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Kelly, J. (2016) ‘“To Fan the Ardour of the Layman”: The Architectural Review, The MARS Group and the Cultivation of Middle Class Audiences for Modernism in Britain, 1933-1940’, Journal of design history, 29(4), pp. 350–365. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw025. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Hiscock, K. (2000) ‘Modernity and “English” Tradition: Betjeman at The Architectural Review’, Journal of design history, 13(3), pp. 193–212. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/13.3.193. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] .(1992) Sir James Richards; Obituary The Times. Available at: https://www.proquest.com/docview/319047903?parentSessionId=OFwTI5eFUaTSnGFnuGTSg15PyLk7WrtvBZM73XHG0dU%3D&pq-origsite=summon&accountid=12441Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Crook, J.M. (1999) ‘Sir James Richards (1907–92): a Bibliographical Tribute’, Architectural history, 42, pp. 354–374. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066622X00000903. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Richards, J.M. (James M. and Piper, J. (1946) The castles on the ground : the anatomy of suburbia. London: Architectural Press. Find it on MDX library Search

[Book] Richards, J.M. (James M. (1980) Memoirs of an unjust fella. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Find it on MDX Library Search