Title & Author:

Communicating Architecture / [presented by] Peter Murray (New London Architecture).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2018.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (49 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Peter Murray -- A Model Of The Much-Hated Robinson Building Was Burnt & The Ashes Presented To The Architect -- Cover Of Megascope 3, Published In 1965 -- Peter Murray Circa 1967 -- Cover Of Clip-Kit -- Cover Of Nova Magazine, A Radical Magazine For Women, April 1967 -- Architectural Design's Paris Issue, Edited By Martin Pawley, September 1971 -- Rudolph Schindler's Widow -- Building Design's Front Page, Exposing Local Authority Housing Failures, March 1976 -- Prince Charles -- Blueprint, Featuring James Stirling On The Cover -- Blueprint, Featuring Philippe Starck On The Cover, 1993 -- Pull Out Image From Wordsearch's Brochure For Foster & Partners' Unbuilt London Millennium Tower, 1996 -- St. John Street In Clerkenwell During The London Architecture Biennale (Now London Festival Of Architecture), 2004 -- Renzo Piano Leading Sheep Across The Millennium Bridge During The London Festival Of Architecture In 2008 -- Model Of Central London At New London Architecture, The Centre For London's Built Environment On Store Street.
Recorded in London, October 2018.

Summary:

Writer and commentator Peter Murray has been at the forefront of architectural debate in the UK for over five decades. In addition to editing the influential publications Building Design and RIBA Journal, he also launched both Blueprint magazine and the first London Architecture Biennale, now the London Festival of Architecture. In this talk, Murray describes his formative experience on radical 1960s magazines Clip-Kit and Megascope, his journalist campaigns and exposés during the 1970s, and his more recent work promoting architecture and the built environment through consultancy Wordsearch and New London Architecture, the centre for London's built environment. He also reflects on the monumental changes to architectural publishing he has witnessed over the course of his career.

Subject:

Architectural writing.
Architectural design Great Britain.
Architecture Art d'écrire.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architectural design.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Murray, Peter, 1944- narrator.