Ends Middles Beginnings

by Hale, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781904772170
• ISBN10: 190477217X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Artifice Inc

Summary

"From the bright, clean lines of the Uplands Conference Centre, to the sweeping roofs of the Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edward Cullinan Architects' style is fluid and unpredictable, morphing with each project to suit the individual requirements of the people that will inhabit the space. In an attempt to understand present circumstances for the benefit of an unknown future, the practice renounces ego for warmth, and individual glory for an architecture that integrates into the space and context of its environments. It is this singular generosity that unites all their projects to date and that has earned Cullinans the reputation of being one of the most significant British architecture practices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." "Edward Cullinan Architects have on occasion been said to represent the 'touchy-feely' side of British architecture. This is an oversimplification, but there is some truth behind this statement. Cullinans stands for unembarrassed humanism. An architecture that serves the real clients of a building - not just the ones footing the bill. Ends Middles Beginnings is a celebration of their work."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Beginning Ends Middles Beginnings	p. 6
Archaeolink Visitor Centre	p. 8
Territories: Architecture as Place-Making: Routes and Journeys	p. 22
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre	p. 50
Making Places	p. 62
Ready Mix Concrete International Headquarters	p. 90
Plans: The Geometry of an Idea: Islands of Order	p. 104
Platonic Pavilions	p. 124
Centre for Mathematical Sciences	p. 140
Sections: From the Cave to the Nest: Solar Sections	p. 154
Breathing Buildings
Cave and Horizon	p. 176
Inhabited Roofs
Earth to Sky
Layered Facades
Camden Mews	p. 198
The Art of Making Buildings: Doing It Yourself	p. 212
System Building	p. 222
Four Elements of Architecture	p. 240
Striated Walls
Skin and Scales
Multiple Layers
Downland Gridshell	p. 254
Context: An Architecture of Resistance	p. 268
Thanks and Credits	p. 273
Staff	p. 274
Selected Projects and Buildings	p. 275
Further Reading	p. 278
Index	p. 286
Colophon	p. 288
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