British built : UK architecture's rising generation / Lucy Bullivant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullivant, Lucy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Great Britain--21st century.

Architecture.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2005]

Summary:

For a while now the "Young British Artists" have been soaking up the international limelight thanks to a sensibility that is at once outrageous and thoughtful. Architecture, of course, always takes a while to catch up to the other arts, but now, finally, Britain has emerged as one of the world's most-fertile breeding grounds for international design talent. Catalyzed by such leading international architecture schools as the Architectural Association and the Bartlett, a new wave of architects, from home and abroad, is combining local and global styles in exciting new buildings and projects. Post-Imperial British designers are indeed synthesizing foreign cultures with Western conditions in an entirely original way. Profiling Britain's most dynamic and intriguing practices,

Contents:

The emerging ethos

Alison Brooks Architects

Adjaye Associates

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris [AHMM]

Caruso St John

de Rijke Marsh Morgan [DRMM]

Deborah Saunt David Hills Architecture [DSDHA]

FAT

Kathryn Findlay

Foreign Office Architects [FOA]

Gollifer Langston

Klein Dytham Architects [KDa]

MUF

Sergison Bates

S333

Multi-scalar practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1568985533

OCLC:

58431833