Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists Poster A Jewish-Austrian exile in 1930s

A Jewish-Austrian exile in 1930s London

the guide documents the changes in style and function of Lasdun’s work

completed after Gropius's exodus to the United States in 1937

for the first time

Council housing is as much a part of the capital as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace

Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists Poster A Jewish-Austrian exile in 1930sHardback edition, 309 pages By David Burke The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London was the haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came to be known as the "Magnificent Five" after the Western movie The Magnificent Seven; the Kuczynski family who helped recruit Klaus Fuchs to disclose the atomic bomb