A Question of Scale / [presented by] Philip Dowson (Arup Associates).

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Dowson, Philip, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Industrial--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (23 minutes)): sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Summary:

Philip Dowson is a founder partner of Arup Associates, a multi-disciplinary design practice in London. He maintains that a close integration between the professions is more than ever necessary today to co-ordinate designs in our present climate of technical change. He starts his talk by describing a small house built in 1964 which illustrates an approach to architecture that is common to all the work that he shows: architecture is about people; how given a site, the architect can enrich the lives of the future occupants of a building on it; how relationship can be struck between man-made and natural, between small and large scale, between the way of life and the environment which is the heart of it all. The resolution of these and other problems, such as energy and conservation, are discussed and illustrated by his industrial and office work and his university buildings.

Contents:

Philip Dowson

Long Wall House Suffolk

Mining & Metallurgy Laboratories, University Of Birmingham. Model Of Structure

Truman HQ, London

Truman HQ, London. Plan

Truman HQ, London. Interior

Truman HQ, London. Office Interior. Section Through Office Ceiling Coffer

Top: Wiggins Teape HQ, Basingstoke. Bottom: Structure Of Lloyd's Admin HQ, Chatham

IBM Building, Johannesburg. External Glass Skin

IBM Building, Johannesburg. Plan & Corner Detail

IBM Building, Johannesburg. Office Interior

CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol

CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol. Plan

CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol. Top: 'Where Hand Touches Building'. Bottom: Stairwell

Corpus Leckhampton, Cambridge

Corpus Leckhampton, Cambridge. Looking Into A Student Set

St. John's College, Oxford. Model Of Plan

St. John's College, Oxford

St. John's College, Oxford. Covered Walkway

St. John's College, Oxford. Left: Plan Of Room Layouts. Right: Structure

St. John's College, Oxford. Inside Student 'Set'

St. John's College, Oxford.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 19, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.