CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS

Editor

Muriel Emanuel

Architectural Consultant

Dennis Sharp

Assistant Editors

Colin Naylor Craig Lerner

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® by The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1980

Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1980978-0-333-25289-5

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First published 1980 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LIMITED London and Basingstoke Associated companies in New York, Dublin, Melbourne, Johannesburg and Madras

ISBN 978-1-349-04186-2 ISBN 978-1-349-04184-8 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-1-349-04184-8

Introduction

Advisers and Contributors

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS

Notes on Advisers and Contributors

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

During the two years that I have spent preparing Contemporary Architects, I have come to hope that-because of our very conscious involvement with architecture in our every movement as dwellers and workers-this book will be of interest not only to the profession and its scholars, but also to the general public.

The selection of entrants has been based on the suggestions of our Advisory Board, listed on page ix. The emphasis is, of course, on living architects and on those who have recently died; as well, we have included those architects of the modern movement of the 1920's-1950's who, in the view of the Board, continue to exert an important influence on architecture. Lacunae do exist, but not for our want of trying: our editors and researchers simply were not able to establish accurate information about contemporary architecture in the U.S.S.R. and some of the countries of Eastern Europe.

We have somewhat stretched the definition of "architect." We have tried to indicate the current importance of both planning and theory by including as entrants those planners and theorists who may have few built works to show for a lifetime's career but whose thinking and imaginative visions have profoundly influenced architects throughout the world. Likewise, we have included those landscape architects who have made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the best utilizations of open space. Also included are the most prominent structural engineers of our era-those who have increased the possibilities for architecture. The lines that separate the architect from the theorist from the planner from the engineer grow increasingly indistinct, and many entrants now work within multi-disciplinary firms. Other entrants are individuals in private practice; others are individuals who head large and diverse firms; still others are partnerships of various kinds. We hope that our choices reflect both the diversity and continuity of architecture as it enters the 1980's.

The research work was carried out mainly at the libraries of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association in London, the Avery Library of Columbia University in New York, and the Burnham Library of the Art Institute of Chicago. To all the librarians who answered my often seemingly unanswerable questions and searched for papers, periodicals, theses, and mislaid books-my thanks. Thanks, too, to our main translators, Fay Lunzer and Brenda Ohlman, and to those contributors who went far beyond the task of writing essays to assist, suggest and encourage throughout the project-Teresa Czaplinska-Archer, Philip Drew, Chris Fawcett, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Esther McCoy, Mitchell B. Rouda, Franz Schulze, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Arnold Whittick. The work of the dead entrants of the inter-war and post-war years has usually been well documented, but just the same there were problems: I'm grateful to all those contributors, as well as to the families and former associates of recently deceased architects, who were kind enough to look over and correct my work.

Documentation on living architects, when it is available, is less exacting, and my last acknowledgement will seem curious only to those who have never been involved in such research. I wish to thank the entrants. I am very grateful to all of them for their (often exceedingly time-consuming and painstaking) documentation of a lifetime's work, for their diligence in selecting and preparing their bibliographies, for their readiness to write statements on their work especially for this book, and for their seemingly endless patience in responding to my questions. Without the enthusiasm, cooperation and hard work of the 400 living architects included here, Contemporary Architects would not exist.

-Muriel Emanuel

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Stanley Abercrombie Friedrich Achleitner Kurt Ackermann Gerald Adler W. H. Alington Bob Allies Anthony C. Antoniades Katsuyoshi Arai Christopher Arnold Edmund N. Bacon George Baird Alan Balfour Jonathan Barnett T. Q. Battle Stephen Bayley Konstantin Bazarov B. E. Biermann Peter Blundell Jones Oriol Bohigas Harold Booton Christian Borngraber Michael Brawne H. A. N. Brockman H. Allen Brooks Georges Candilis Anton Capitel Max Cetto D. D. C. Chambers Bernard Champigneulle Ching-Yu Chang Giuliano Chelazzi Alson Clark Ursula Cliff Peggy Cochrane

Max Cetto Jorge Czajkowski Anthony Jackson William H. Jordy

James Codrington Forsyth Peter Collins Peter Collymore Brenda Colvin Jeffrey Cook Henry Cowan Logan Cravens S. Fiske Crowell. J r. James Stevens Curl William J. R. Curtis Jorge Czajkowski Teresa Czaplinska-Archer Justus Dahinden Eric de Mare Mary Elizabeth Devine Renee Diamant-Berger John D. Dickson Philip Drew Garrett Eckbo Rita Eder Julian Elliott Muriel Emanuel Richard England Tobias Faber Geoffrey Lee Farnsworth Dimitris A. Fatouros Chris Fawcett John Furse Romaldo Giurgola Jorge Glusberg Gontran Goulden James Gowan Urs Graf Cedric Green

ADVISERS

Udo Kultermann David Mackay Wolfgang Pehnt Joseph Rykwert

Mildred F. Schmertz Harry Seidler Arieh Sharon Dennis Sharp Pierre Vago

CONTRIBUTORS

Daniel Gregory Randell L. Makinson Anthony Gregson Antero Markelin Doreen Greig Linda Martin Hans Hallen Lara-Vinca Masini Stephen P. Hamilton Robert' Maxwell Clinton Harrop-Allin Esther McCoy Lucinda Hawkins J. M. McKean Mary Hayes Michael McMordie Raija-Liisa Heinonen Nory Miller Tom Heneghan Edward D. Mills Gilbert Herbert Luciana Miotto-Muret Paul Heyer Flavio Motta Don J. Hibbard Michael MUller Donald Hoffmann Elizabeth Murphy William Dudley Hunt. Jr. Janet Nairn Kent Hurley Zdravko Natchev Anthony Jackson Colin Naylor Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Robert B. Nevel Jiirgen Joedicke Roger Osbaldeston Joseph B. Juhasz Timothy Ostler Diane Kell Gordon Patterson Jonathan Kingdon Roger Pegrum Robert E. Koehler Richard C. Peters Otto Koenigsberger Julius Posener Udo Kultermann Malcolm Quantrill Bruce Kuwabara Andrew Rabeneck Michael Laurie Larry Richards Richard Lavenstein Ida Rodriguez Linda Legner Abraham Rogatnick Ronald Lewcock Eugene Rosenberg Michael Lloyd Michael Franklin Ross Arnulf LUchinger Mitchell B. Rouda K. C. Lye Diana Rowntree David Mackay Joseph Rykwert

Manfred Sack B. S. Saini Asko Salokorpi Mildred F. Schmertz Martina Schneider Norbert Schoenauer Franz Schulze Robert Segrest Harry Seidler Eduard F. Sekler E.1. Seow Dennis Sharp Adrian Sheppard Richard Sheppard Nathan Silver C. Ray Smith Kevin Spencer Paul Spreiregen Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus Pekka Suhonen Howard Tanner Jennifer Taylor GUnther Uhlig Pierre Vago Russell Walden Hiroshi Watanabe David Watson Frank Werner Arnold Whit tick Sheldon Williams Stephanie Williams Peter Willis John Winter Robert Winter

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