Title & Author:

A Question of Scale / [presented by] Philip Dowson (Arup Associates).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (23 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Philip Dowson -- Long Wall House Suffolk -- Mining & Metallurgy Laboratories, University Of Birmingham. Model Of Structure -- Truman HQ, London -- Truman HQ, London. Plan -- Truman HQ, London. Interior -- Truman HQ, London. Office Interior. Section Through Office Ceiling Coffer -- Top: Wiggins Teape HQ, Basingstoke. Bottom: Structure Of Lloyd's Admin HQ, Chatham -- IBM Building, Johannesburg. External Glass Skin -- IBM Building, Johannesburg. Plan & Corner Detail -- IBM Building, Johannesburg. Office Interior -- CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol -- CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol. Plan -- CEGB SW Region HQ, Bristol. Top: 'Where Hand Touches Building'. Bottom: Stairwell -- Corpus Leckhampton, Cambridge -- Corpus Leckhampton, Cambridge. Looking Into A Student Set -- St. John's College, Oxford. Model Of Plan -- St. John's College, Oxford -- St. John's College, Oxford. Covered Walkway -- St. John's College, Oxford. Left: Plan Of Room Layouts. Right: Structure -- St. John's College, Oxford. Inside Student 'Set' -- St. John's College, Oxford.

Summary:

Philip Dowson is a founder partner of Arup Associates, a multi-disciplinary design practice in London. He maintains that a close integration between the professions is more than ever necessary today to co-ordinate designs in our present climate of technical change. He starts his talk by describing a small house built in 1964 which illustrates an approach to architecture that is common to all the work that he shows: architecture is about people; how given a site, the architect can enrich the lives of the future occupants of a building on it; how relationship can be struck between man-made and natural, between small and large scale, between the way of life and the environment which is the heart of it all. The resolution of these and other problems, such as energy and conservation, are discussed and illustrated by his industrial and office work and his university buildings.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Industrial Great Britain.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture industrielle Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Dowson, Philip, narrator.