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This title discusses the work of two of the most eminent
contemporary British architects, Edward Jones and Sir Jeremy Dixon.
With distinguished careers spanning four decades, their works
separately and, since 1989, in partnership range from the Royal
Opera House in London to Mississauga City Hall in Canada and from
the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds to the Business School for
Oxford University. Although they have built throughout the UK, it
is to London above all that Dixon Jones have devoted their energies
- and it is on London that they have made the greatest impact. Some
of the capital's most important public buildings - the Royal Opera
House, the National Portrait Gallery, the courtyard of Somerset
House - have been given a new life by their deft interventions,
transforming what were previously somewhat austere institutions
into vital and valued components of the public realm. In this
publication, the buildings and projects of Jeremy Dixon and Edward
Jones, from their student days to the present, are fully documented
with drawings, photographs and essays by critics and clients, as
well as comments by the architects. Alan Colquhoun, Robert Maxwell
and Kenneth Powell provide an in-depth critical interpretation
while Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Charles Saumarez Smith - clients for
the Royal Opera House and National Portrait Gallery respectively -
offer a unique insight into the process of working with Dixon
Jones.
This is a monograph on one of the most influential architectural
practices to have emerged in Britain in the last two decades of the
20th century. Following their victory in their very first
competition - the Mound redevelopment in Edinburgh - Allies &
Morrison has gone on to design many admired projects, including the
British embassy in Dublin, the University of Cambridge Sidgwick
campus and the BBC White City scheme. The buildings and projects
are documented by drawings, photos and essays, plus comments by Bob
Allies and Graham Morrison.
This is the first monograph on one of the most distinguished
architectural practices in Britain. Sir Richard MacCormac is
recognised internationally as one of the most thoughtful and
original architects of today. His practice, MacCormac Jamieson
Prichard, has been responsible for some of the most celebrated UK
projects of recent years, ranging from new buildings for Worcester
College Oxford to the Cable & Wireless headquarters in
Warwickshire and from the Ruskin library in Lancaster to the new
BBC headquarters in central London. These projects are presented
thematically in the book and documented with drawings and photos.
Essays by critics Peter Davey, Robert Harbison and Richard Sennett
and commentaries by Richard MacCormac set the work in its wider
intellectual context. This book is the fourth in "Right Angle's"
series on leading British architects of today, initiated by Dixon
Jones. This was described by the Architect's Journal as "a
beautifully crafted example of how to present architecture in
print; its presentation is exemplary."
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