Basil Spence : architect / edited by Philip Long and Jane Thomas.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Long, Philip.

Thomas, Jane

National Galleries of Scotland

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spence, Basil, Sir, 1907-1976--Exhibitions.

Spence, Basil.

Spence, Basil, Sir, 1907-1976.

Architects--Scotland--Exhibitions.

Architects.

Architects--Scotland--Biography.

Scotland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, [2007]

Contents:

Living with Spence / Gillian Blee

Working with Spence / Anthony Blee

Evolution of a practice / Jane Thomas

First buidlings 1932-9 : arts and crafts to modernism / Clive B. Fenton

Exhibition design / Brian Edwards

Shaping the sacred : Spence as church-builder / Louise Campbell

Building for modern ceremony / Miles Glendinning

From genius loci to the borbals : Spence as architect of mass housing / Miles Glendinning

Drawing a new map of learning : Spence and the University of Sussex / Louise Campbell

The architect and the artists / Philip Long.

Notes:

"Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland to accompany the exhibition, Back to the future : Sir Basil Spence, 1907-1976, held at the Dean Gallery from 19 October 2007 to 10 February 2008 and at The Herbert, Coventry from 20 June to 31 August 2008."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

9781906270001

1906270007

OCLC:

183145805