Title & Author:

Transforming the Modern Tradition / [presented by] Stephen Hodder.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1998.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (33 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
St. Catherine's College Extension. Plan Model Showing Extension Bottom Left -- St. Catherine's College Extension. Rear Facing River -- St. Catherine's College Extension. Front Elevation -- St. Catherine's College Extension. Staircases & Transparency -- St. Catherine's College Extension. Southernmost Pavilion & Staircase -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. Plan Model -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. Elevation To The City -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. South End Of Building -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. West Side -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. Overlapping Stainless Steel Shields -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. North End -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. Internal Street -- Centenary Building. University Of Salford. View From West -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. Plan -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. View From North -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. North East Elevation -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. View From South East -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. Main Access Stair -- Career Services Unit, Manchester University. Open Plan Offices.

Summary:

At the time of this talk Stephen Hodder was a Nottingham-born young English rising star of second-generation Modernism, trained at Manchester School of Architecture in the mid-1970s. On graduating, he worked in Building Design Partnership's Preston office, but left after two years to set up his own practice in 1983 in Manchester. Seven years later he won a competition for a swimming pool in Colne, which gained the RFAC/Sunday Times Award in 1992. Since then he has not ceased to be in the public eye, winning one architectural competition after another, as well as the coveted Stirling Prize in 1966 for his Centenary Building at the University of Salford. But it was the extension he designed for St. Catherine's College in Oxford that put the seal on his capability. St. Catherine's was the Arne Jacobsen masterpiece, about which Reyner Banham had written that "absolute architectural morality prevails" allowing "no room for growth". Hodder's exquisite complementary solution disproved this. His talk, he says, is about his search for an extension or transformation of the modern tradition, and he uses three of his designs to illustrate his approach.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Hodder, Stephen, narrator.