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This title discusses the work of two of the most eminent contemporary British architects, Edward Jones and Sir Jeremy Dixon. With distinguished careers spanning four decades, their works separately and, since 1989, in partnership range from the Royal Opera House in London to Mississauga City Hall in Canada and from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds to the Business School for Oxford University. Although they have built throughout the UK, it is to London above all that Dixon Jones have devoted their energies - and it is on London that they have made the greatest impact. Some of the capital's most important public buildings - the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery, the courtyard of Somerset House - have been given a new life by their deft interventions, transforming what were previously somewhat austere institutions into vital and valued components of the public realm. In this publication, the buildings and projects of Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, from their student days to the present, are fully documented with drawings, photographs and essays by critics and clients, as well as comments by the architects. Alan Colquhoun, Robert Maxwell and Kenneth Powell provide an in-depth critical interpretation while Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Charles Saumarez Smith - clients for the Royal Opera House and National Portrait Gallery respectively - offer a unique insight into the process of working with Dixon Jones.Product Identifiers
PublisherRight Angle Publishing LTD
ISBN-139780953284825
eBay Product ID (ePID)88046886
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDixon Jones: Buildings and Projects 1959-2002
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
AuthorMark Swenarton, Ian Latham
Subject AreaUrban Planning
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height230 mm
Item Width270 mm
Additional Product Features
EditorMark Swenarton, Ian Latham
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom