Denys Lasdun: Architecture, City, Landscape - Softcover

Curtis, William J R

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9780714839028: Denys Lasdun: Architecture, City, Landscape

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ISBN 10: 0714839027 ISBN 13: 9780714839028

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1999

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Denys Lasdun (1914-2001) was one of Britain's most eminent architects, whose career spanned the entire period of Modernism in British architecture. His notable buildings include the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, the University of East Anglia, the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg and the National Theatre on London's South Bank.

In this first comprehensive study of the architect, William Curtis offers a critical assessment of Lasdun's ideas and achievements, tracing the evolution of his architectural discourse and his continuing preoccupations. With detailed analyses and many outstanding illustrations from the architect's own archive, the author presents a thought-provoking challenge to the critics of Modernism and demonstrates the enduring and human qualities of Lasdun's work.

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Review:

'At last we have a monograph worthy of the man.' (Architectural Review)

'A fine celebration and reappraisal of Lasdun's work.' (Observer)

'His book is one of the finest on architecture I have ever read.' (Architects' Journal)

Synopsis:

A study of the work of Denis Lasdun, this volume examines the ideas and guiding myths behind Lasdun's forms and shows how his architecture fits into both the British and international modern movements, and how it is indebted to classical and earlier traditions. The study is based upon primary documentary sources and 20 years of dialogue with the architect. It is the aim of the text to explain the meaning of such key works as the Bethnal Green housing clusters (1952-4), the Royal College of Physicians (1959), the University of East Anglia (1962) and the Hurva Synagogue project for Jerusalem (1970). Two chapters are devoted to the social history and design process of the whole National Theatre project (1965-76). The book explores Lasdun's idea of architecture as "urban landscape" and deals with the ways in which he has extended the principles of the modern masters into new expressive territories.

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