| Description |
175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
My Lovely Student Life -- Jigsaw -- A Useful Irritant -- Does the AA Relate to Real Life -- Sir James Richards Interview -- The Slow Growth of Another Sensibility: Architecture as Town Building -- People Robots and Trees -- Raymond Erith Interview -- The Houses in Between -- The Environmental Trigger -- Arthur Korn Interview -- Reflections on the Oppostion of Architecture and Building -- Deminilitarisation of the University -- Sir Clough Williams Ellis Interview -- The Electric Decade: An Atmosphere at the AA School 1963-73 -- 125 Years of Quasi Democracy -- Reply -- Myth, Misses and mr Architecture -- Memoirs of a Reluctant Juryman |
| Summary |
This book is a consolidation of essays arranged in three layers thematically. The first is directly about the AA; the second attempts to synthesize the converstaions that are typical and current in the school at the present time; the third is a group of discussions taken from video-tape interviews with four well-known AA architects who have each made reputations that are distinct and personal |
| Analysis |
Great Britain Architecture Organisations Architectural Association |
| Notes |
'Many of the articles had their first airing at a symposium arranged by Charles Jencks at the Architectural Association in the summer of 1972' - Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
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Architectural Association
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Architecture -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Gowan, James.
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Architectural Association (Great Britain)
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| LC no. |
75311694 |
| ISBN |
0851391311 |
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085139132X (paperback) |
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