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- Composition and TypologyAlan Colquhoun's building projects
- Abstract
- This contribution discusses seven of Colquhoun’s architectural projects, which he produced, successively, at the London County Council (LCC), at the practice of Lyons Israel Ellis, and at the firm he founded with John Miller: Colquhoun Miller & Partners. In the work, various formal and compositional architectural principles are tested within various idioms. The situating and grouping of buildings seem to incorporate a latent affinity with the romantic-classicist tradition, while the later work from the 1970s and 1980s attests to a gradual expansion of the formal references in favour of the picturesque, early-twentieth-century innovative architecture and, on occasion, Italian rationalism.
- Citation
- Grafe, C., Teerds, H., & Avermaete, T. (2012). Composition and Typology. Alan Colquhoun's building projects. Alan Colquhoun. Architect, Historian, Critic, OASE, (87), 1–9. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/87/CompositionAndTypology
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- August 2012
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