Abstract
In the inter-war period there was a dialogue between modern architecture and planning and the concerns of health reformers and practitioners. This paper examines that dialogue in the context of two health centres built in London in the 1930s—the Pioneer Health Centre (1935) and the Finsbury Health Centre (1938). Both of these buildings are landmarks in the history of British modernism and they share that movement's concern with hygienic design, the utilization of sunlight and fresh air, and the value of propaganda in health education. However, they differ in their ideological or social programmes. Whilst the Pioneer Health Centre expressed a conservative belief in private health funding and the family, the Finsbury Health Centre was part of the radical regeneration of the Borough according to socialist principles of State funding and citizenship. The paper ends by considering what these examples tell us about the history of modernism.
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