Colin St John Wilson - Black Dog Publishing

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Colin St John Wilson
Buildings and Projects
Roger Stonehouse
Eric Parry
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ISBN10: 1 904772 70 6
ISBN13: 978 1 904772 70 5
Hardback
496pages
463 b/w and colour ills
24.5 × 21 cm
Pub date: Jul 2007
£39.95
• Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects is the definitive monograph on
Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of the most important British architects of the second
half of twentieth century.
• The book coincides with and celebrates St John Wilson’s 85th birthday,
spanning projects from throughout his career, from early works, to perhaps his
most celebrated building, the British Library in London and its extension to his
current project, the masterplanning of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
• St John Wilson’s peers include the likes of Reyner Banham, Philip Johnson and
Louis Kahn, and he is one of the few living architects to have befriended both Le
Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. St John Wilson is also recognised as a leading theorist
and teacher.
• Colin St John Wilson: Buidings and Projects presents detailed, newly
commissioned scale drawings of all of St John Wilson’s major work. This 496
page hardback book is beautifully illustrated with over 450 colour and black
and white illustrations.
• Fascinating texts by respected architects and writers including Professor Roger
Stonehouse and Eric Parry fully elucidate St John Wilson’s contribution to modern
architecture. St John Wilson himself contributes an essay on the making, writing
and teaching of architecture.
• This erudite, comprehensive publication is the perfect companion to Black Dog
Publishing’s re-issue of St John Wilson’s seminal The Other Tradition of Modern
Architecture: The Uncompleted Project.

architecture art design
fashion history photography
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Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects is the definitive monograph on
Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of the most important British architects of the twentieth
century. The book, which coincides with and celebrates St John Wilson’s 85th
birthday, spans projects from throughout his career, from early work, such as the
groundbreaking1956 This is Tomorrow collaborative exhibition of architects and
artists; to his own house in Cambridge (where he was the University’s Head of the
School of Architecture 1975–1989); to perhaps his most celebrated building, the
British Library in St Pancras and its extension.
Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects takes the reader on a journey through
modern British architectural history, finishing in the present day with the work that St
John Wilson is currently engaged in, the masterplanning of the Royal Academy. The
book also includes several of his most recent buildings, including the contemporary
wing to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which opened in 2006, and houses
St John Wilson’s extensive collection of modern British art.
Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects beautifully illustrates the thought
processes and theories behind the work, with essays, photographs, drawings and
diagrams; as well as genealogical and chronological charts, that place his architecture
within a historical context. Fascinating texts by respected architects and writers
including Professor Roger Stonehouse and Eric Parry fully elucidate St John Wilson’s
contribution to modern architecture.
This erudite, comprehensive publication is the perfect companion to Black Dog
Publishing’s re-issue of St John Wilson’s seminal The Other Tradition of Modern
Architecture: The Uncompleted Project. (ISBN 1904772625).
Professor Roger Stonehouse has written extensively on architecture, most recently
The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras (Spon Press, 2004) and
Architectural Reflections: Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture
(MUP, 2000).
Eric Parry founded Eric Parry Architects in 1983. He is the President of the
Architectural Association and has lectured at the University of Cambridge, Harvard
University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Volume II on Eric Parry Architects will be
released by Black Dog Publishing in Autumn 2007.
black dog publishing limited
Unit 4.04 Tea Building
56 Shoreditch High Street
London E1 6JJ
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