The University of East Anglia (UEA) at Norwich, England was one of the group of seven new universities of the 1960s. Established with "Oxbridge" acumen and welfare state fervor, UEA believed that the new education programs had to be embodies within an entirely new kind of campus design. For this, the university chose one of England's most forceful and individualistic architects, Denys Lasdun. Lasdun's work has been followed in later stages by that of Norman Foster and Rick Mather. Drawing on archival photographs and ...
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The University of East Anglia (UEA) at Norwich, England was one of the group of seven new universities of the 1960s. Established with "Oxbridge" acumen and welfare state fervor, UEA believed that the new education programs had to be embodies within an entirely new kind of campus design. For this, the university chose one of England's most forceful and individualistic architects, Denys Lasdun. Lasdun's work has been followed in later stages by that of Norman Foster and Rick Mather. Drawing on archival photographs and original plans, the authors chart the continued interaction of academic, architectural and political agendas.
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New. 0906290600. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--160 pages. Description: "The University of East Anglia in Norwich was one of the group of seven new universities set up in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in a wave of optimism. The university set out to embody this optimism in an entirely new kind of campus design and, as patron, has engaged some of the most able and distinguished architects of the second half of the twentieth century to work for it: Lasdun, Feilden, Luckhurst, then Foster (the Sainsbury Centre), Miller and, most recently, Mather. The authors record, illustrate and discuss the particular circumstances of the university's commissioning of architects to develop buildings on the main campus of Norwich, from the sophisticated but gentle architecture of the 1990s to the architectural heroism and brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s, explaining the political and financial constraints which caused new methods of construction and changes in the choice of design and building materials as the plans for the development of the University unfolded."--with a bonus offer--
