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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 this work – an oeuvre whose experiential depth is recognized by both users and critics. Wilson's work seeks an order that is not self-contained but is rather open to site, to light, to human touch, and to circumstance: for him this demands an ethical choice between the rival claims of Art and Life. Thus his work might be characterized as an architecture of invitation, predicated on the notion of architecture as a Practical Art, whereby form is born out of a process of painstakingly searching out the particular and psychological needs of the user. The ethic identified in the book takes Wilson beyond technocratic obsessions or transient pre-occupations with style, towards a more radical agenda than many would recognize. This is evidenced in Wilson's concern to address both the 'inner' (the psyche, physiological needs, and patterns of use) and the 'outer' (the humanist polis) in his architecture. Such agendas are timely and throw a significant challenge to the pervasive individualism of the object-city of 'landmark' architecture.

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Lasdun, Denys --- 72.036 <420> --- 711.4 <41> --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 711.4 <41> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 72.036 <420> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland

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In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building (as it came to be known), was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question "How do we want to live now?" it was England's first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced for him and other clients during their brief sojourn in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain.0This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and the infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand, working for Le Corbusier's practice, who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930.0The book is beautifully illustrated with archive photography - much of which is previously unseen - and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive.

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72 PRICE, CEDRIC --- 72.036 <420> --- Architecture --- -Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architectuur. Bouwkunst--PRICE, CEDRIC --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- Design and construction --- Price, Cedric --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Architectuur. Bouwkunst--PRICE, CEDRIC --- 72.036 <420> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- 72 PRICE, CEDRIC Architectuur. Bouwkunst--PRICE, CEDRIC --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- History --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Price, Cedric,

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Foster, Norman °1935 (°Manchester, Groot-Brittannië) --- Architectuur ; 1979-2005 ; Norman Foster --- 72.038 --- 72.039 --- 72.07 --- 72 FOSTER, NORMAN --- 72.036 <420> --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuur. Bouwkunst--FOSTER, NORMAN --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Architects --- Architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- History --- Foster, Norman, --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 72.036 <420> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- 72 FOSTER, NORMAN Architectuur. Bouwkunst--FOSTER, NORMAN