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In 1958, architect Denys Lasdun was handed a seemingly impossible task: design a radically modern building for a 500-year-old institution. The anatomy of a building: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians
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Despite the criticisms and the thirteen years it took to realize, Denys Lasdun 's Royal National Theatre may be the most beloved Brutalist building in Britain, thanks to its generous public.
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Denys Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association where he became a firm adherent of the modern movement. Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture was to remain an influence on him all his life.
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Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun and Julie . Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.
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LASDUN, SIR DENYSLASDUN, SIR DENYS (1914-2001), English architect. Denys Lasdun was born in London, the son of a businessman who was the cousin of the Russian stage designer Leon Bakst; his mother was the granddaughter of the Australian artist Louis Abrahams. He was educated at Rugby and at the Architectural Association School. Source for information on Lasdun, Sir Denys: Encyclopaedia.
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Peter Buchanan. 31/12/2014. Stack of National Theatre models. Like many architects held locally in high esteem (as evidenced by his RIBA Royal Gold Medal, knighthood, and the early listing of several buildings as historic monuments), Sir Denys Lasdun (1914-2001), the centenary of whose birth is this year, was less well known abroad.
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The master builder Sir Denys Lasdun, who died two years ago, was one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in British architecture. His son, the poet James Lasdun, reveals that the.
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The fabric of British architectural heritage has been significantly shaped by the avant-garde designs of Sir Denys Louis Lasdun. Born on 8th September 1914 in Kensington, London, and passing away on 11th January 2001, Lasdun made a lasting impact on Britain's architectural landscape.
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Jan. 14, 2001 12 AM PT From Associated Press LONDON — Sir Denys Lasdun, a modernist architect who designed the Royal National Theatre in London, has died of pneumonia, his family announced. He.
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The architect of the Royal National Theatre, Sir Denys Lasdun, who has died aged 86, was already an impressive figure as a student at the Architectural Association in the 1930s. His upright.
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Brutalism: Denys Lasdun's National Theatre - one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings - is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like.
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Denys Lasdun was born in 1914 and became one of the most important architects in post-war Britain. His works have become more widely appreciated in recent years, with 29 listed buildings to his name.
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Denys Louis Lasdun is born in Pembridge Place, London to a Russian businessman, Nathan, and an Australian musician, Julie Abrahams. 1917 The Return to London After spending time in Australia, a 3-year-old Denys returns to London via America and moves into the Vandyke Hotel. 1932 — 1935 Student Life
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My love for Lasdun sprang from three deep wells: as a man, a family man and a social being I loved his difficult self; as an architect I loved, admired. Subscribe. You can use WP menu builder to build menus.. Sir Denys Lasdun was one of the few great architects of the twentieth century, a totally worthy successor to his mentors Wells Coates.
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Sir Denys Lasdun died in 2001, following which his family formally deposited his full archive with the RIBA British Architectural Library and in 2006 work began on its conservation and cataloguing.
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Everyone, from HM the King to a bus driver passing over Waterloo Bridge, gets to have an opinion on Sir Denys Lasdun's masterwork. Most of them conclude that it's a stack of concrete bunkers,.