ARCHITECTURAL REFLECTIONS: Studies in Philosophy and Practice of

ARCHITECTURAL REFLECTIONS: Studies in Philosophy and Practice of [Paperback]

WILSON Colin (Author)

Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, (14 March 1922 – 14 May 2007) was a British architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned to be built in Bloomsbury and now completed near Kings Cross.

References

• Sarah Menin and Stephen Kite, An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson. Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
• Obituary, The Guardian, 16 May 2007
• Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 16 May 2007
• Obituary, The Times, 17 May 2007
• Obituary, The Independent, 19 May 2007
• Biography from Pallant House Gallery

Review

This intelligent, informed, independent, serious, moral and delightful book abounds with the apposite quote, the felictous phrase. Martin Richardson

Product Description

In this book of the world's greatest architects explores the original aims and principles of modern architecture. Where the postmodern critique is often a retreat into the past, Colin St. John Wilson argues that a renewal of the humanist basis of modern architecture is the only sound approach to the future. The essays explore the philosophical and ethical basis of architecture, "the other tradition of modernism," the work of Aalto, Scharoun, Lewerentz, Asplund, and Rietveld, the rise and decline of postmodernism, and a case study of Waterhouse's Law Courts, the most complex of all urban projects.