Showing posts with label a: Denys Lasdun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a: Denys Lasdun. Show all posts

604. Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge


Dear Peter,

"The architect's aesthetic judgment is a function of myth
and reason, a link between the emotional and the rational
and the necessary means of entry into the realm of ideas"
(Denys Lasdun)

Regards.
R

262. University of East Anglia


Dear Peter

Denys Lasdun's fascination with geology, with
the "lie of the land" (which he himself maintained
learnt from Frank Lloyd Wright), becomes
somehow overwelming in the glazed residential
quarters shaped like ziggurats at the University of
East Anglia. In any rate they stand as a fascinating
counterpoint of the High-Tech Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts by Norman Foster located also on this
campus.

Sincerely.
R