Basil Spence
Subtitle: architect
By: edited by Philip Long and Jane Thomas
Contributors: Dean Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland); Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781906270001
Subjects: Exhibitions; Architects; Biography
Description: "Basil Spence 1907-1976 was one of Britain's most celebrated architects. This illustrated book explores his extraordinary career from the 1930s to the 1970s, focusing particularly on the post-war period. Central to his work was a sensitivity towards materials and a commitment to working with artists. Spence's work is discussed here in a series of essays introduced by a personal memoir especially written by the architect's close family."--Jacket.
Notes: Published accompany the exhibition, Back to the Future: Sir Basil Spence 1907-1976, held at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Oct. 19, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008, and at The Herbert, Coventry, June 20-Aug. 31, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Living with Spence / Gillian Blee; title: Working with Spence / Anthony Blee; title: Evolution of a practice / Jane Thomas; title: First buildings 1932-9: arts and crafts to modernism / Clive B. Fenton; title: Exhibition design / Brian Edwards; title: Shaping the sacred: Spence as a church-builder / Louise Campbell; title: Building for modern ceremony / Miles Glendinning; title: From genius loci to the gorbals: Spence as architect of mass housing / Miles Glendinning; title: 'Drawing a new map of learning': Spence and the University of Sussex / Louise Campbell; title: The architect and the artists / Philip Long.