An Architecture of Invitation
An Architecture of Invitation

Author: Sarah Menin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0429856121

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First published in 2005, An Architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson is a distinctive study of the life and architectural career of one of the most significant makers, theorists and teachers of architecture to have emerged in England in the second half of the twentieth century. Exceptionally in an architectural study, this book interweaves biography, critical analysis of the projects, and theory, in its aims of explicating the richness of Wilson’s body of work, thought and teaching. Drawing on the specialisms of its authors, it also examines the creative and psychological impulses that have informed the making of the work – an oeuvre whose experiential depth is recognised by both users and critics.

Architectural Reflections
Architectural Reflections

Author: Colin St. John Wilson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780719057045

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Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich's writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich's work and Native American literature, Stirrup explores the full depth and range of her authorship. Breaking Erdrich's oeuvre into several groupings - poetry, early and late fiction, memoir and children's writing - Stirrup develops individual readings of both the critical arguments and the texts themselves. He argues that Erdrich's work has developed an increasing political acuity to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Native American literatures. Erdrich's insistence on being read as an American writer is shown to be in constant and mutually-inflecting dialogue with her Ojibwe heritage.This sophisticated analysis is of use to students and readers at all levels of engagement with Erdrich's writing.

Colin St John Wilson
Colin St John Wilson

Author: Roger Stonehouse

Publisher: Black Dog Architecture

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904772705

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Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects is the definitive monograph on Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of the most important British architects of the second half of twentieth century. The book coincides with and celebrates St John Wilson's 85th birthday, spanning projects from throughout his career, from early works, to perhaps his most celebrated building, the British Library in London and its extension to his current project, the masterplanning of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. St John Wilson's peers include the likes of Reyner Banham, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn, and he is one of the few living architects to have befriended both Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. St John Wilson is also recognised as a leading theorist and teacher. Colin St John Wilson: Buidings and Projects presents detailed, newly commissioned scale drawings of all of St John Wilson's major work. This 496 page hardback book is beautifully illustrated with over 450 colour and black and white illustrations. Fascinating texts by respected architects and writers including Professor Roger Stonehouse and Eric Parry fully elucidate St John Wilson's contribution to modern architecture. St John Wilson himself contributes an essay on the making, writing and teaching of architecture. This erudite, comprehensive publication is the perfect companion to Black Dog Publishing's re-issue of St John Wilson's seminal The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project.

Kitaj, the Architects
Kitaj, the Architects

Author: R. B. Kitaj

Publisher: Black Dog Architecture

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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RB Kitaj started painting The Architects in August of 1979 to celebrate the remodelling of his home by MJ Long. Painted largely without the models themselves present, this portrait of his friends against the backdrop of the stepped bookcase designed for him by MJ marks a transition in Kitaj's development as an artist.

The Design and Construction of the British Library
The Design and Construction of the British Library

Author: Colin St. John Wilson

Publisher: London : British Library

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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"The British Library at St Pancras, the major public monument built in the United Kingdom in the 20th Century, opened to the public in April 1998. Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson has spent the greater part of his working life on the project from 1962 onwards when various schemes for a building adjacent to the British Museum were proposed, through to the completion phase of the present design." "This book reveals how Professor Wilson and his team responded to successive changes in the Brief, whilst determinedly maintaining a commitment to the very highest quality in all aspects of a building designed to last 250 years. Illustrated with many original drawings and specially-commissioned photographs, it will appeal to anyone interested in modern architecture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The British Library
The British Library

Author: Colin St. John Wilson

Publisher: Scala Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 9781857594447

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The British Library at St Pancras opened to the public in April 1998 and no other project in Britain since the building of St Paul s Cathedral is comparable in time-scale or the magnitude of controversy surrounding it. Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson

Sigurd Lewerentz
Sigurd Lewerentz

Author: Nicola Flora

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2006-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904313465

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This study of Sigurd Lewerentz, the Swedish modern master, is the most original and comprehensive monograph published to date, with a full treatment of unbuilt projects as well as completed buildings.

Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Gillespie Kidd & Coia

Author: John Rodger

Publisher: Rias in Partnership with the Lighthouse Scotland's Centre for Architecture Design and City

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781873190586

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Gillespie, Kidd & Coia: Architecture 1956 - 1987 has been created by The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art and Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The project celebrates the work of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia from 1956 - 1987. The programme comprises a major exhibition, a book, a website, an education and outreach programme and the cataloguing and conserving of the Gillespie, Kidd & Coia archive held at The Glasgow School of Art.The project has been funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, The Scottish Government, Historic Scotland, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, The Craignish Trust and The Ernest Cook Trust

As Found
As Found

Author: Claude Lichtenstein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9783907078433

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Works of art were created in the England of the 50s and 60s which are of extraordniary topicality today. This applies particularly to the Independent Group which included artists, photographers as well as architects. Its members strove to achieve an authenticity close to the grass roots of life, to discover the essence of the everyday, to arouse a sensitivity to life in the raw as against a touched-up version of reality, to bring out both its hardships and its charm. The book is about architecture and art and photography. It seeks rather to show the unmediated impact and direct appeal of a refractory aesthetics.