London Tube Stations: 1924-1961 Murray Damon

Charles Holden's designs for the London Underground from the mid-1920s to the outbreak of World War II represent a high point of transport architecture and Modernist design in Britain. Pick used the term 'Medieval Modernism' to describe their work on the underground system, comparing the task to the construction of a great cathedral. His collaboration with Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of London Transport, brought about a marriage of form and function still celebrated today.

These beautiful buildings, simultaneously historic and futuristic, have been meticulously documented by architectural photographer Philip Butler. London Tube Stations 1924 - 1961 catalogues and showcases every surviving station from this innovative period. Annotated with station-by-station overviews by writer and historian Joshua Abbott, the book provides an indispensable guide to the network's Modernist gems.

All the key stations have a double page spread, with a primary exterior photograph alongside supporting images. A broader historical introduction, illustrated with archival images from the London Transport Museum, gives historical context, while a closing chapter lists the demolished examples alongside further period images.These stations, as famed architectural historian Nicholas Pevsner later noted, would "pave the way for the twentieth-century style in England".