John Outram:

This is the first major study of John Outram, whose decorative yet elemental architecture has captured the popular imagination. Outram launched his own architectural practice in 1974, soon securing a reputation for innovative, creative and monumental buildings. Their brilliant colours and exuberant...

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1. Verfasser: Franklin, Geraint
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Schriftenreihe:Twentieth Century Architects Ser.
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Zusammenfassung:This is the first major study of John Outram, whose decorative yet elemental architecture has captured the popular imagination. Outram launched his own architectural practice in 1974, soon securing a reputation for innovative, creative and monumental buildings. Their brilliant colours and exuberant gestures earned him a reputation as a post-modernist, but this book explores their deeper background in architectural history, metaphysics and mythology. In addition to the major buildings - including The New House at Wadhurst, the Isle of Dogs Pumping Station and the Judge Institute - the book examines unrealised projects, including Bracken House and Ludgate in the City of London. Running through them all is a storytelling approach that draws upon the mythologies and architectures of the ancient world. This book shows how Outram's work reconciles iconography with a creative approach to building technology, posing questions about the recovery of architecture's traditional role of communic...
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (200 p.).
ISBN:1802070761
9781802070767

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