Basil
Spence : buildings and projects / edited by Louise Campbell, Miles Glendinning
and Jane Thomas.
RIBA, London : 2012
371 p. : il., planos
ISBN 9781859463093
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72 SPENCE BAS
As one of
Britain’s most celebrated architects, Basil Spence’s beautiful and varied
oeuvre has until now defied proper analysis in the wider twentieth century
cultural context. Sir Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects combines
critical essays with a chronological framework to paint a vivid picture of the
architect and his time. Lavishly illustrated with photos and drawings from the
archive, many published for the first time, the book reveals the virtuoso
draftsmanship that lies behind Spence’s groundbreaking architectural vision.
The book falls into two parts – a critical historical section and a gazetteer.
Part I comprises four chronological sections. Each begins with a chapter
containing an overview of practice history and of Spence’s public and personal
life, followed by chapters setting Spence’s key buildings in their historical
and critical context. Part II contains a comprehensive gazetteer, documenting
and illustrating all Spence’s projects, giving a sense of the range and
diversity of Spence’s life and work. Elegantly designed and packed with superb
period photography and drawings, Sir Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects is a
landmark event in the literature of architectural history.|In the 1950s and
1960s, Basil Spence – architect of Coventry Cathedral and of Sussex University
– was Britain’s best-known architect. However, Spence’s varied and superbly
crafted oeuvre has until now defied proper analysis in the wider
twentieth-century cultural context. Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects combines
critical essays with a chronological framework to paint a vivid picture of the
architect and his times. Lavishly illustrated with photos and drawings from the
archive, many published for the first time, the book reveals the virtuoso
draftsmanship that lies behind Spence’s groundbreaking architectural vision.
The book falls into two parts – a critical historical section and a List of
Works. The first part comprises four chronological sections. Each begins with a
chapter containing an overview of practice history and of Spence’s public and
personal life, followed by chapters setting Spence’s key buildings in their
historical and critical context. The second part contains a comprehensive List
of Works, documenting all Spence’s projects and illustrating many of them in
order to give a sense of the range and diversity of his life and work.
Elegantly designed and packed with superb period photography and drawings,
Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects is a landmark event in the literature of
architectural history.
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