Gordon Cullen Working with Cullen David Gosling David Gosling collaborator with Gordon Cullen on a number of projects describes his experiences of working with Cullen. Though a great admirer of Gordon Cullen since his student days at Manchester University, the dream of working with him did not actually occur until the mid-1970s. David Gosling is Professor of Urban Design and Director of the Urban design Centre at the University of Cincinnati. Illustration shows overall layout proposed for Maryculter. If these are linked together in a network then people quietly understand where they are in the general context.
Ambiguity concedes to clarity.
The scheme was sent to Kenneth Browne, who had succeeded Cullen as Townscape Editor at the Architectural Review, and he decided to publish it in August 1962. It was perhaps ironical that I should finally meet Gordon Cullen when times had become very bad for him, both in medical and employment terms, and at the time when I was leaving my professional career as chief architect of Irvine New Town to start an academic career at Sheffield University. In 1973, Christian Salvesen Ltd., the house builders, through its managing director Tom Baron, commissioned a masterplan for a privately financed new town outside Aberdeen, and Salvesen agreed to the appointment of Gordon Cullen and Kenneth Browne as consultants. Ian Nairn acted as self-appointed critic and Guinness drinker. The team, which included Salvesen's young chief architect, the late Dan Donohue, was a magical combination and everybody truly believed at the time that the outcome would be the first major built work in Cullen's career.