100 Objects from Century of the Child

Ernő Goldfinger. Model demonstrating the assembly of a prefabricated concrete construction system for Westville Road Primary School and Brandlehow Road Infants School, Hammersmith, London. 1950 In 1950 Goldfinger produced an experimental cast-concrete frame with brick and glass walls for two London County Council schools. Wartime bombing had disproportionately affected London, where, at the conflict’s end, more than 1,300 schools were damaged or destroyed. Goldfinger’s design was economical, and as his model indicates, required a single crane to erect the precast frame, which could be accomplished in only twenty-four days. Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Ernő Goldfinger. Model demonstrating the assembly of a prefabricated concrete construction system for Westville Road Primary School and Brandlehow Road Infants School, Hammersmith, London. 1950

In 1950 Goldfinger produced an experimental cast-concrete frame with brick and glass walls for two London County Council schools. Wartime bombing had disproportionately affected London, where, at the conflict’s end, more than 1,300 schools were damaged or destroyed. Goldfinger’s design was economical, and as his model indicates, required a single crane to erect the precast frame, which could be accomplished in only twenty-four days.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

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