#books #architecture | Evans + Shalev

Evans + Shalev / essays by, Joseph Rykwert ... [et al.] ; edited by, David Jenkins.
London : Circa Press, 2020.
211 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Evans and Shalev

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781911422174
Cita APA-7: Rykwert, Joseph, & Jenkins, David (2020). Evans + Shalev. Circa Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72EVANS EVA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1158895292

[.en] It is difficult to imagine the history of modern architecture in Britain being written without reference to the work of Eldred Evans and David Shalev. From 1967, when they won the international competition for Newport High School, Evans and Shalev maintained a distinctive presence as designers. Together they created a body of work that is uniformly innovative, elegant and sensitive to place, and realised with care, skill and intelligence. This new monograph documents their remarkable oeuvre as it developed over six decades. Introduced by Joseph Rykwert, the book includes critical commentaries by David Dunster, Patrick Hodgkinson and others.

#books #architecture | Archigram : the book

Archigram : the book / Warren Chalk ... [et al.] ; editor, Dennis Crompton ; [essays by Reyner Banham ... et al.].
London : Circa Press, 2018.
300 p. : il.
ISBN 9781911422044
/ EN / Libros / Archigram / Arquitectura – Siglo XX
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101620944

[.en] Archigram comprised Warren Chalk (1927-88), Peter Cook (1936-), Dennis Crompton (1935-), David Greene (1937-), Ron Herron (1930-94), and Michael Webb (1937-). Together, in the 1960s and early 1970s, they envisioned the future of architecture in ways that enthralled a generation. In an era defined by the space race, they developed a 'high-tech', lightweight, infra-structural approach that stretched far beyond known technologies or contemporary realities. They devised autonomous dwellings and focused on survival technology; they experimented with mega-structures and modular construction systems; they explored mobility through the environment, and the use of portable living capsules: all through the medium of an incredible series of drawings and models. Archigram's influence has been profound and enduring. They gave the High-tech movement its impetus; they inspired architects such as Renzo Piano and Norman Foster; and they laid the ground for the design of buildings such as the Pompidou Centre. This book catalogues Archigram's activities over fourteen years, together with commentaries by the architects and critics writing then and now. Edited and designed by Archigram member Dennis Crompton, it has been 40 years in the making.