Robert
Maguire & Keith Murray : twentieth century architects / Gerald Adler
RIBA, London : 2012.
X, 206 p. : il. col. y n., planos
ISBN 9781859461655
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendziaje A-72.036(410) ROB
Robert Maguire was still a student at the Architectural
Association in London in the early 1950s when he designed his first church. A
committed Christian and enthusiast for contemporary design, he was a leading
figure in the liturgical reform movement that sought to find an appropriate,
modern setting for worship. His design for St Paul, Bow Common in London's East
End was the first such church to be built in Britain, and was followed by a
remarkable series of churches and other religious buildings in England in the
1960s and '70s designed together with the silversmith and designer Keith
Murray, with whom he went into partnership in the late 1950s. The practice was
famous for pursuing the intellectual and architectural toughness of the New
Brutalism with the humanity and warmth of the Scandinavian tradition. They
completely rethought the design of churches, and went on to reinvent the
typology of both the school and of student accommodation. Bow Common school
revolutionised open plan layouts, and Stag Hill Court student houses for the
University of Surrey set new standards in communal living with its finely
judged mix of privacy and community. Gerald Adler places this small but highly
influential studio within the changing context of post-war architectural practice,
where the Brutalism of the 1950s gave way to the more technologically oriented
architecture of the 1970s, and the so-called Romantic Pragmatism of the 1980s.
The book is richly illustrated with drawings from the office archive, in
addition to new photographs.
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