Abstract
The Spies Who Came into the Modernist Fold: The Covert Life in Hampstead’s Lawn Road Flats draws on the field of intelligence history to cast new light on the 1934 modernist landmark in London designed by architect Wells Coates for clients Jack and Molly Pritchard. With the gradual opening of intelligence archives in Britain and Russia since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, it has come to light that between 1935 and 1942, four prominent Soviet spies made their home in the Flats. In this article, Jill Pearlman investigates why the spies chose the Flats as their place of residence. Based on extensive research in both intelligence and architectural archives, she argues that the design, program for modern living, and setting of the Flats offered the Soviet agents a residence that facilitated their espionage work.
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