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 Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras
The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras

Author: Roger Stonehouse

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 113580396X

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In a series of interrelated essays, this book describes the British Library and the issues surrounding its design, construction, purpose and place in the architectural canon. Examining the experience of the building together with its form, these essays explore the ideas and aspirations behind its conception and its construction, offering insight into this striking, controversial, and stimulating building. For artists, architects and building professionals interested in the current debates concerning architecture and our culture, The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras is a stimulating read.

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

Big Plans
Big Plans

Author: Kenneth L. Kolson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-11-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780801877308

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This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.

The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book
The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book

Author: Philip Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780712352994

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The British Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys, and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples ranging from world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps, curiosities and fake maps have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book. Each map is faithfully reproduced with a description of its creation and use, followed by details showing areas of particular interest. Readers are asked to scrutinize the maps to answer a series of historical and geographical questions, all the while enjoying new perspectives on the world we live in provided by our eclectic and extensive archive.

Treasures of the British Library
Treasures of the British Library

Author: Nicolas Barker

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780712304092

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In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.

The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras
The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras

Author: Roger Stonehouse

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0419251200

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In a series of interrelated essays, the authors describe the British Library at St. Pancras. They explore the underlying aspirations and ideas behind the building and examine the technology that was instrumental in its construction.

A Book of Book Lists
A Book of Book Lists

Author: Alex Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780712352253

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"This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from prisoners' favourite books to MPs' most borrowed books, these lists are proof that a person's bookcase tells you everything you need to know about them, and sometimes more besides."--

Leicester Engineering Building
Leicester Engineering Building

Author: John McKean

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780714831541

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James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late twentieth century. He established his world-wide reputation in the 1960s while still in partnership with James Gowan, and his strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester University Engineering Building, the last project to be completed by the partnership. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble is juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops whose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry.

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.