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In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category of post-war architectural and design practice - that of the small private practice that flourished in Britain’s expanding suburbs after the removal of wartime building restrictions. Such firms; which played an important role in the development of British domestic design; are currently under-represented within architectural histories of the period.The private house represents an important site in which new spatial; material and aesthetic parameters for modern living were defined after the Second World War. Within a British context; the architect-designed private house remained an important ‘vehicle for the investigation of architectural ideas’ by second generation modernist architects and designers.Through a series of case study houses; designed by Wood’s firm; the book reconsiders the progress of modern domestic architecture in Britain and demonstrates the ways in which architectural discourse and practice intersected with the experience; performance and representation of domestic modernity in post-war Britain.