Urban Design in Action / [presented by] Richard MacCormac.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

MacCormac, Richard, 1938-2014, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

City planning--Great Britain.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (26 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Summary:

The British architect Richard MacCormac trained at Cambridge University in the early 1960s and, after some travel in the USA and practical experience in England, established his own practice in London in 1969. He is now senior partner in MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and Wright. Concurrently he has always been involved in architectural education, mainly at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, which has led to a series of important university commissions in England. He has published many articles on urban design, housing and architectural history, and he is a member of Britain's Royal Fine Art Commission. The largest and most recent urban design scheme that he has undertaken, together with a developer and the architects The Fitzroy Robinson Partnership, is for Spitalfields, an area on the edge of the City of London. There were three contending proposals, but MacCormac's was the one selected. In his talk he distinguishes between what he calls "foreign" and "local" urban transactions. "Foreign" are those that do not relate to the locality (banking, warehousing, factories, etc.), "local" are those that do (shopping, eating and drinking, housing, etc.). He explains how he has reconciled these public and private interests in his design for Spitalfields.

Contents:

Richard MacCormac

Euston Tower, London

Palladio's Teatro Olimpico

Precinct Of St. Paul's Cathedral, London-Charlotte Street, London

Study For Covent Garden, London

Gum Shopping Centre, Moscow

Royal Exchange, London

Coliseum Theatre, London

Hypothetical Section Of A New Development

Spitalfields, London. Christchurch

Spitalfields, London. Site & Surroundings

Spitalfields, London. Building Heights Diagram

Spitalfields, London. Site Plan Showing Building Heights

Spitalfields, London. Street Plan

Spitalfields, London. Site Uses

Spitalfields, London. North-South Section Through Scheme

Spitalfields, London. Second Floor Plans

Spitalfields, London. Fourth Floor Plans

Spitalfields, London. Sixth Floor Plans

Spitalfields, London. Model Of South Face Of The Scheme

Spitalfields, London. Perspective Of North Face Of The Scheme

Spitalfields, London. Internal Arcade. Drawing

Spitalfields, London. Interior Of Glazed Public Space & Theatre. Drawing.

Notes:

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

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.