ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 418
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Mar 6 16:27:00 PST 2009
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COLIN ST. JOHN WILSON - TWO HOUSES
by Roger Stonehouse
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British architect Colin St. John "Sandy" Wilson
(1922-2007) is best known for designing the British
Library (1997) in London, a fraught but ultimately
successful project begun in 1962. In Colin St John
Wilson: Buildings and Projects, Roger Stonehouse reviews
many of Wilson's works, including the Grantchester Road
houses and Spring House. In an introduction to the book,
drawn from a 1992 essay, Wilson reflects on the state of
modernism in the early 1960s. - Editor
My next-door neighbour at that time was Reyner Banham,
and in endless discussions with him and a small group of
friends it was brought home to me that a number of the
"lost causes" and "zones of silence" in the last 30
years of architectural exploration embraced issues far
more subtle and life-giving than the reigning
orthodoxies of the International Congress of Modern
Architects (CIAM). It was therefore in the full
awareness of this polemic that I began to formulate my
own position.
In the first place it had become clear to me that for my
generation, the dice were loaded by the momentous period
in which we were born. The early 1920s were the pivotal
years in the adventure of Modernity.
They witnessed achievements that were not only gestures
of iconoclasm but also achieved masterpieces of the New.
Literature's greatest triumphs were launched: Ulysses,
The Waste Land and the Duino Elegies; Wittgenstein
published the Tractatus and Le Corbusier Vers une
Architecture. Mies designed his glass tower project,
Rietveld the Schroeder House; and neo-classicism
delivered its last lingering swansong in Lewerentz's
Chapel of the Resurrection and Asplund's project for the
Stockholm Chancellery.
And so those who were born at such a time it would
inevitably fall to inherit not only the masterpieces of
the avant-garde but also the intervening meditations of
the rearguard in their task of consolidation and
interpretation of the initial advance. And to us it
seemed that "the victory" of Modern Architecture and the
orthodoxy of the Congress was a Pyrrhic victory.
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Real-Life Regreening
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What of the middle scale - the ten- to 40-acre
(four- to 16-hectare) shopping centers with two or more
anchors? What kind of impacts and communities can
retrofits build at this scale?
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People and Places
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York, New York - KSS Architects in Princeton, New
Jersey - NBBJ and Fei & Cheng Associates in Taipei,
Taiwan...
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