An architecture of invitation : Colin St. John Wilson / Sarah Menin and Stephen Kite ; foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa.

Main entry:

Menin, Sarah, author.

Title & Author:

An architecture of invitation : Colin St. John Wilson / Sarah Menin and Stephen Kite ; foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes statements by Colin St. John Wilson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-335) and index.
Introduction : the examined life -- Framing a life -- London : building the "new world" -- Wall and court : the Cambridge years -- The "carving" of space : Cornford House -- Shaping the polis -- Master builder : the British Library -- Architecture and art -- A time to profess : return to Cambridge -- An ethical line : ethics and aesthetics -- Conclusion : the aedicular offering : ordering the in-between.
Dust jacket

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0754637832 (alk. paper)
9780754637837 (alk. paper)

Subject:

St. John Wilson, Colin.
Wilson, Colin St. John, 1922-2007.
St. John Wilson, Colin 1922-2007
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Architects.
Architekt
Architecte.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Quotations (texts)
Biographie (Descripteur de forme)

Added entries:

Kite, Stephen, author.
Kite, Stephen
Pallasmaa, Juhani
St. John Wilson, Colin

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243860
Call No.: NA44.S7747.9 M4 2005
Status: Available

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