The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project - Hardcover

St John Wilson, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854904124 ISBN 13: 9781854904126

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

Synopsis

Identifies a common strand of opposition to the CIAM movement and a body of work which now demands proper recognition as the Other Tradition.

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Colin St John Wilson The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture The Uncompleted Project In the revision of theories of modern architecture, the research of Professor Colin St John Wilson into the underlying themes of the influential leaders of modern design in Europe has opened new discourse. In this book Wilson has consolidated such new evidence into a comprehensive argument for 'the other tradition of modernism'. Optimistically, he qualifies the considerable body of work by these pioneers of the modern as 'the incomplete project'. The message is that the canons of the period, once revised and adapted, extend through the work of new generations of architects into the next century. Professor Wilson's book opens new frontiers while abandoning those which have become obsolete in terms of the continuing tradition of the modern, and will be certain to inspire a new generation of architects and students alike.

About the Author

Colin St John Wilson is Professor Emeritus in Architecture, University of Cambridge, and has taught on both sides of the Atlantic, as a visiting professor at Yale in 1960, 1964 and 1983 and MIT in 1970 and 1971. He first became Professor of Architecture at Cambridge in 1975. He is the author of Reflections on Architecture, Oxford, 1992. He is the architect of the British Library, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1854904124
• ISBN 13: 9781854904126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1