John Simpson: The Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace and Other Works - Couverture rigide

John, Richard; Watkin, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1901092399 ISBN 13 : 9781901092394

Editeur : Andreas Papadakis Publishers, 1999

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Simpson is one of the leading architects in Europe who has returned in recent years to the classical language of architecture, with all its richness, subtlety, and historic resonances. His public and private works show how this language, though abandoned by the Modernists, lends itself with particular ease to the incorporation of the latest developments in technology. Describing a wide range of work from furniture design to town-planning, this beautifully illustrated book gives pride of place to his principal commission so far, the new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, a major new centre for the visual arts in London, opened by Her Majesty the Queen in May 2002 as part of the celebrations of her Golden Jubilee. All in a sparkingly inventive and beautifully crafted classical language, the new additions include a Greek Doric entrance portico and entrance hall, with sculptured friezes and a free-standing sculpture by Alexander Stoddart. A richly polychromatic staircase hall leads up to three large new galleries, a number of smaller ones, and a lecture hall. Behind the scene, Simpson has completely remodeled the Royal Kitchen, staff quarters and the Trades Yard. John Simpson has also played a key role in the revival of traditional urbanism, as in his design for Paternoster Square, next to St Paul's Cathedral, and, most recently in the ambitious Market Hall he has built at the Prince of Wales's new town of Poundbury, Dorset. Other chapters cover his interiors at Gonville and Cauis College, Cambridge, an inspired development from the work of Soane and Cockerell, and Ahsfold House, Sussex, which also takes Soanean themes in new directions. Both John Simpson and David Watkin have taught at the Prince of Wales's Institute of architecture when Richard John was its Director, while David Watkin is also a leading authority on the work of C.R. Cockerell and Sir John Soane, architects who profoundly influenced John Simpson. This volume is thus a unique and compelling demonstration of the fruitful interchange of history and practice in modern architecture.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Richard John was educated at Cambridge, where he took a starred First in History of Art, at Columbia University, and at Warburg Institute, London. He worked for HRH The Prince of Wales from 1995-1998, first as Director of the Prince's Institute of Architecture in London, and then as founding Director of the Prince's Summer School in Architecture in the United States. In 1999 he joined the Faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. Professor David Watkin is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is Vice-chairman of the Georgian Group and was a member of the Historic Buildings Council and its successor bodies in English Heritage form 1980-1995.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Andreas Papadakis Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1901092399
• ISBN 13: 9781901092394
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible