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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.
This book is a unique comparative study of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this study offers a new understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism. Through an analysis of the architects' own writing about their ideas and philosophies, a better understanding is gained of their ideas for urban living and by looking at their most widely known work, the authors analyse the architects' intentions to build nature into the heart of their architecture. The authors argue that there are many similarities between the attitudes towards nature held by Le Corbusier and Aalto, and that these similarities had an important place in the generation of their architecture.
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.
This book is a cutting edge study which examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.
This book is a cutting edge study which examines the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.
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