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11.
July
2017.
Walters Way & Segal Close


I have written a book about the architect Walter Segal, together with photographer Taran Wilkhu. It focuses on Segal's most famous streets, Walters Way and Segal Close, and looks at the history and today's residents. 


We are having a special Evening event with Tom Dyckhoff and other Segal enthusiasts on 24 July at the Building Centre in London. http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/walters-way-and-segal-close

I hope you can come to it and I hope you like the book. Please let me know if you would like a copy to review. 

The publisher's press release is below 


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Synonymous with self-build, Walter Segal led the 1970s UK self-build movement. While building his own family home in London, Segal erected a small temporary home in the garden, which led to a number of commissions for houses in that style - a lightweight timber structure with no foundations other than paving slabs, using easily available timber and cladding materials in standard sizes. 

During the 1970s, Segal was able to persuade the London Borough of Lewisham to sponsor a do-it-yourself experiment for those on its waiting list. The result was twenty homes that are unusual, both in the way they look and in the way they were conceived and built. Segal died before the project was completed, and in his honour, the residents named the streets after him

Thirty years on, the houses are still standing and have been adapted to meet the needs of today's residents. Written by two current residents of these streets, journalist Alice Grahame and photographer Taran Wilkhu,Walters Way and Segal Close tells the story of how their homes came to be built, and of the estate's development since. Neither Grahame nor Wilkhu are the initial inhabitants of their respective homes, but when they moved in the both became instantly fascinated by the story of how and why they were made.

This book was created in collaboration with the occupants of both streets, who all opened their houses and shared their insights of life on a Segal estate.

 

Book Launch

You are warmly invited to join us:

Monday 24th July 2017
6.30pm - 8.30pm 
Building Centre, London
In partnership with the Built Environment Trust. 

 

We will be hosting a panel discussion at the book launch, guests will include:

Tom Dyckhoff - TV Presenter and designer

John McKean - Biographer of Segal 

Jon Broome - Architect who worked with Segal

Kareem Dayes - Segal resident and founder of Segal-inspired housing project the Rural Urban Synthesis Society

 

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Press images are available on request

 

'Walter Segal was nothing if not a holistic pioneer. He recognised that architecture serves one noble purpose: social health. His schemes, projects, community groups, systems and designs all served, and continue to serve, the creation of that magic social glue.'-Kevin McCloud.Designer, writer and presenter of Channel 4's Grand Designs

 

For further information or to request a copy of this book to review, please contact:

Hannah Gooch, Publicist
ACC Publishing Group
Sandy Lane, Old Martlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4SD
T: +44 (0)1394 389979
E: publicity@antique-acc.com
www.accpublishinggroup.com