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In 1933, Lucas joined forces with New Zealanders, Amyas Connell and Basil Ward. The partners built several avant-garde houses in the 1930s, and were important exponents of the International Style in Britain, but their uncompromising modernism often evoked controversy.
On several occasions they had to adapt their designs under pressure from local councils, who were concerned that the houses should blend in more with their surroundings.
The Modern Movement in Britain
Britain was actually fairly slow to take up this new school of architecture, whose real roots were in Germany, Holland and France. Apart from the work of Connell, Ward and Lucas, and of one other firm called Tecton, the Modern Movement did not really flourish in the UK until after the Second World War.
The functionalism of the Modern style and the advances made in reinforced concrete construction by architects like Lucas were well suited to the demands of a post-war world.
The need for urban reconstruction gave modernist architects the opportunity to work on large-scale projects that had been denied to them before. Local councils, previously suspicious of the movement, became important patrons of architecture; and flats, schools and hospitals were built in the modernist style.
For his part, Lucas worked in the Architects' Department of London County Council following the war. He exercised considerable influence over the younger architects there, and was involved most notably in the design of the Alton West Estate at Roehampton. He was appointed OBE in 1972.
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