Lloyd's building : Richard Rogers Partnership / Kenneth Powell.

Main entry:

Powell, Ken, 1947-

Title & Author:

Lloyd's building : Richard Rogers Partnership / Kenneth Powell.

Publication:

London : Phaidon Press, 1994.

Description:

60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Series:

Architecture in detail

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 60).
British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Summary:

The Lloyd's Building is an icon of a heroic moment in modern architecture and a major architectural landmark in the City of London. Described by one observer as a 'mechanical cathedral', its 300-foot silver and glass structure makes a startling impact in its context of city office blocks, and epitomizes Richard Rogers' concern with total flexibility and technological advance.
Referred to by Rogers as 'history conscious, energy-conscious, functional ... ' and 'more dynamic than Pompidou', it is a forerunner of the new office architecture of the 1980s and 1990s and a pioneer of 'Intelligent buildings'.
In this monograph Kenneth Powell charts the process of collaboration, partnership and inspired patronage which resulted in the construction of Lloyd's, and describes Rogers' search for 'balance between permanence and transformation'. In an introductory essay, Patrick Heron offers a deliberately personal and passionate assessment of the building as a 'purely aesthetic, purely visual experience', and a challenge to the distinction between aesthetics and physical usefulness.

ISBN:

0714830062
9780714830063

Subject:

Rogers, Richard George Criticism and interpretation.
Rogers, Richard, 1933-
Rogers, Richard George Critique et interprétation.
Rogers, Richard, 1933-2021
Rogers, Richard, 1933- Criticism and interpretation.
Rogers, Richard, (1933- ...)
Lloyd's Building (London, England)
Lloyd's (Firm) Buildings.
Richard Rogers Partnership.
Lloyd's of London.
Lloyd's Building (Londres, Angleterre)
Lloyd's (Firme) Constructions.
Lloyd's (Firm)
Richard Rogers Partnership agence.
Buildings
Commercial buildings England London.
Architecture, Modern 20th century England London.
Architecture England London.
Immeubles de bureaux Conception et construction 20e siècle.
Immeubles de bureaux Construction métallique 20e siècle.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London
Commercial buildings Architecture
London (England)

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Richard Rogers Partnership.
Architecture in detail (London, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 189475
Call No.: IDM NA44.R728.25.L5; ID:94-B911
Status: Available

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