Career Retrospective : Alistair McAlpine / [presented by] Alistair McAlpine.

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2013.

1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color

Alistair McAlpine started working for the family building firm Sir Robert McAlpine at the age of sixteen. After his first job on Howard Robinson's Shell Centre on London's South Bank, he went on to work with many of the pre-eminent architects of the post war era: Denis Lasdun, Basil Spence and YRM. His close relationship with Cedric Price spanned many decades, until the latter's death in 2003. In this talk, McAlpine recalls being summoned by Lasdun during building of the National Theatre and his attempt to match make Price with Richard Seifert. He discusses commissioning classical architect Quinlan Terry to design a series of follies for his personal estate, and his concerns about the current London building boom.

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

McAlpine, Alistair, 1942-2014, narrator.