Refining the structure / [presented by] Anthony Hunt (Anthony Hunt Associates).

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Hunt, Tony (Anthony), narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Industrial design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (29 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1986.

Summary:

Anthony Hunt, born in 1932 and trained as a structural engineer, is senior partner in the practice which he established in England in 1962. Having previously worked for the engineer Felix J. Samuely in London, he acknowledges how much he was influenced by him, and by Charles Eames and Konrad Wachsmann in America, as well as by high performance yacht designers. Hunt sees himself as providing a necessary challenge in the design process, and this he has done with leading architects like Foster Associates (IBM and Sainsbury Centre), Richard Rogers & Partners (Inmos), Michael Hopkins (Patera system and Schlumberger, Cambridge), to name but a few. He has been involved in projects of many types in the UK, France, Middle East and the USA. What interests him most in his work, he says in his talk, is trying to refine things down, trying to join things beautifully, trying to use minimum structure in an elegant and clear way. He describes how this was achieved in a number of the jobs on which he has worked.

Contents:

Anthony Hunt, 1986

Konrad Wachsmann: Stress Transferred Outwardly In A Spiral Fashion

Eames House, California

High Performance Yacht

Reliance Controls Factory, Swindon. With Team Four

Apartment Block, London. With Farrell & Grimshaw, Q.V

IBM Northern Road. With Foster Associates, Q.V

Primate House, London Zoo, With John Toovey

Willis Faber & Dumas Offices, Ipswich. With Foster Associates, Q.V

Alexandra Road Housing. With Neave Brown & London Borough Of Camden

Hopkins House, London. With Michael & Patty Hopkins

Sainsbury Centre, East Anglia. With Foster Associates, Q.V

House In Cornwall, With Colquhoun & Miller

Meditation Building For Lindisfarne Association, Colorado, USA. With Keith Critchlow

Patera Lightweight Building System. With Michael Hopkins Architects

British Antarctic Base, Halley Bay. With Angus Jamieson

Link Centre Swindon. With Thamesdown Borough Architects

Inmos Computer Centre, South Wales. With Richard Rogers & Partners

Schlumberger Research Centre, Cambridge. With Michael Hopkins Architects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 28, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.