When Modernism Becomes Heritage
The National Trust is seeking to secure Richard and Su Rogers’ 1967 Wimbledon home – a bright yellow, steel-framed experiment in prefabricated living designed for Richard Rogers’ parents. Its proposed acquisition marks a turning point for the Trust, expanding its definition of heritage to postwar prototypes that once imagined a different future for housing
- Words Deyan Sudjic
- Photography Adam Štěch
Britain’s National Trust began its mission to ‘promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and buildings of beauty or historic interest’ in 1895. The Trust acquired its first piece of land, a Welsh clifftop, in the same year. Shortly afterwards, it took on its first historic house: a simple 14th-century hall house in Sussex with a thatched roof and an exposed timber frame. Since then, it has grown into one of Britain’s largest landowners. It has bought – or been given – 2,500 km2 of England and Wales, along with 500 historic houses, palaces and castles. It has 5.3 million members, making it one of the largest conservation groups in the world, dedicated to the
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