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In 1958, architect Denys Lasdun was handed a seemingly impossible task: design a radically modern building for a 500-year-old institution. The anatomy of a building: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians
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Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun and Julie . Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.
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Jan. 14, 2001 12 AM PT From Associated Press LONDON — Sir Denys Lasdun, a modernist architect who designed the Royal National Theatre in London, has died of pneumonia, his family announced. He.
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Denys Lasdun was born in 1914 and became one of the most important architects in post-war Britain. His works have become more widely appreciated in recent years, with 29 listed buildings to his name.
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17 years after his death in 2001, today Sir Denys Lasdun is students' and researchers' most requested architect at the RIBA Library.
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The master builder Sir Denys Lasdun, who died two years ago, was one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in British architecture. His son, the poet James Lasdun, reveals that the.
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Brutalism: Denys Lasdun's National Theatre - one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings - is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like.
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LASDUN, SIR DENYSLASDUN, SIR DENYS (1914-2001), English architect. Denys Lasdun was born in London, the son of a businessman who was the cousin of the Russian stage designer Leon Bakst; his mother was the granddaughter of the Australian artist Louis Abrahams. He was educated at Rugby and at the Architectural Association School. Source for information on Lasdun, Sir Denys: Encyclopaedia.
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My love for Lasdun sprang from three deep wells: as a man, a family man and a social being I loved his difficult self; as an architect I loved, admired. Subscribe. You can use WP menu builder to build menus.. Sir Denys Lasdun was one of the few great architects of the twentieth century, a totally worthy successor to his mentors Wells Coates.
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Denys Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association where he became a firm adherent of the modern movement. Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture was to remain an influence on him all his life.
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Peter Buchanan. 31/12/2014. Stack of National Theatre models. Like many architects held locally in high esteem (as evidenced by his RIBA Royal Gold Medal, knighthood, and the early listing of several buildings as historic monuments), Sir Denys Lasdun (1914-2001), the centenary of whose birth is this year, was less well known abroad.
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Despite the criticisms and the thirteen years it took to realize, Denys Lasdun 's Royal National Theatre may be the most beloved Brutalist building in Britain, thanks to its generous public.
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Sir Denys Louis Lasdun (September 8th 1914 - January 11th 2001) was a British architect. He studied at the Archiectural Association in London.
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Sir Denys Lasdun died in 2001, following which his family formally deposited his full archive with the RIBA British Architectural Library and in 2006 work began on its conservation and cataloguing.
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Denys Louis Lasdun is born in Pembridge Place, London to a Russian businessman, Nathan, and an Australian musician, Julie Abrahams. 1917 The Return to London After spending time in Australia, a 3-year-old Denys returns to London via America and moves into the Vandyke Hotel. 1932 — 1935 Student Life
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Sir Denys Lasdun, a central figure in European midcentury modernist architecture whose most noted building, the sprawling Royal National Theater on the south bank of the Thames, still inspires.
