New directions in British architecture

Titel: New directions in British architecture

Schrijver: Deyan Sudjic

Bindingswijze: Hardcover

EAN: 9780500341018

Conditie: Goed

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With 170 illustrations, 34 in colour.

With the unveiling of such major monuments as the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Lloyd's building in London and the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, there can no longer be any doubt that the work of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and James Stirling has given British architecture a prestige it has not enjoyed since the days of Lutyens and Mackintosh. Their buildings have attracted international acclaim and their ideas and beliefs have helped to shape architectural thinking throughout the world.
Each, however, has a highly individual style that has often provoked passionate criticism as well as admiration. Stirling's History Faculty Building at Cambridge, Rogers's Beaubourg Centre and Foster's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts - to take only the most famous examples - have been the subject of controversy which embodies the ambitions, arguments and misgivings that have beset architecture in the last thirty years.
This lavishly illustrated book, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, examines their entire careers. Deyan Sudjic's illuminating text discusses their early commissions, the influences on them and their working methods, and gives a detailed account of their buildings and projects, seen in the context of the critical issues that they arouse. In what sense are they 'modern' architects? Does their work justify such labels as 'high-tech' or 'post-modern'? Have political beliefs affected their work? And, perhaps most importantly, how have they tackled the immense problems that face architects designing new buildings for cities which are zealously preserving their historic fabric and desperately attempting to undo the damage inflicted by post-war rebuilding? Deyan Sudjic's analysis is supported and enriched by the work of Richard Bryant, one of England's most distinguished architectural photographers. The result is not only a record of the achievements of three remarkable architects; it is also a foretaste of the evolving forms of our cities and buildings in the decades to come.