In honour of war heroes : Colin St Clair Oakes and the design of Kranji War Memorial / Athanasios Tsakonas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsakonas, Athanasios, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oakes, Colin Sinclair Rycroft, 1908-1971.

Oakes, Colin Sinclair Rycroft.

World War, 1939-1945--Monuments--Singapore.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

At the end of World War II, a young British architect was appointed to design a series of cemeteries and memorials across Asia for the war dead. Colin St Clair Oakes, who had fought in the brutal Burma campaign, was the only veteran of the recent war among the five principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Completed in 1957, Kranji War Cemetery and Memorial in Singapore is a masterwork of Modernist architecture - a culmination of Oakes' experiences in war and his evolution as an architect. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps and architectural plans, and drawing on extensive archival research and interviews in Europe, Australia and Asia, this is a riveting account of a world shattered by war, and man's heroic efforts to recover, remember and rebuild.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Writings

The Architects

Architecture

Colin St Clair Oakes

Singapore

Kranji

Building a War Cemetery

Post-War

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789814928090

9814928097

OCLC:

1224362404