Modernity and reinvention : the architecture of James Gowan / Ellis Woodman.

Main entry:

Woodman, Ellis.

Title & Author:

Modernity and reinvention : the architecture of James Gowan / Ellis Woodman.

Publication:

Description:

235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Magnetic Fishing / Tony Fretton -- Introduction. Modernity and Reinvention: The Architecture of James Gowan / Ellis Woodman -- Buildings and Projects -- Isle of Wight House, 1955-1956 -- Flats, Ham Common, 1956-1958 -- Dodd House, Grenville Place, 1957 -- Preston Housing, 1957-1961 -- Churchill College Competition, 1958 -- Dining Hall, Brynswick Park School, 1958-1960 -- Selwyn College Competition, 1959 -- University of Leicester Engineering Department Building, 1959-1963 -- Frogmore Children's Home, 1960-1964 -- Schreiber House, 1964 -- Schreiber House Swimming Pool, 1967 -- Schreiber Warehouse, 1967 -- House at St David, 1967 -- Creek Road Housing, 1964-1967 -- Gowan-Schreiber Furniture, 1968 -- Runcorn, 1968 -- Trafalgar Road Housing, 1964-1968 -- Byfleet, 1968 -- Park Lane Flat, 1969 -- Bembridge Housing, 1972 -- Warehouses, 1972 -- East Hanningfield, 1975-1978 -- Schreiber House II, 1982-1984 -- Schreiber House III, 1986 -- Flats at West Heath, 1987 -- New Teaching Hospital: Istituto Clinico Humanitas, 1995 -- New Headquarters of Techint SpA, 1998 -- Pragetto Bovisa: International Competition for the Polytechnic of Milan, 1998 -- Extension of Valduce General Hospital, 1999 -- New University Buildings for Universita Cattolica del Sacra Cuore, 2000 -- Conversion of Caserma Garibaldi for Universita Cattolica, 2001 -- Extension of Cliniche Humanitas Gavazzeni, 2003 -- New Research, Teaching and Rehabilitation Centre, 2006 -- Interviews -- New World -- Gentlemen's Agreement -- Reinventions.

Summary:

This title chronicles the course of James Gowan's life and work, with his involvement in some of the most important and influential buildings in post-war Britain.

ISBN:

9781906155285 (pbk.)
1906155283 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gowan, James Criticism and interpretation.
Gowan, James, 1923- Studies.
Gowan, James, 1924- Critique et interprétation.
Gowan, James.
Gowan, James 1923-

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259899
Call No.: BIB 190813
Status: Available

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