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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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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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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,.


Denys Lasdun London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

17 years after his death in 2001, today Sir Denys Lasdun is students' and researchers' most requested architect at the RIBA Library.


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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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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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Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, [1] CH, CBE, RA (8 September 1914, Kensington, London - 11 January 2001, Fulham, London) [2] [3] was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun (1879-1920) and Julie ( née Abrahams; 1884-1963).


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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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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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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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Sir Denys Lasdun, a central figure in European midcentury modernist architecture whose most noted building, the sprawling Royal National Theater on the south bank of the Thames, still inspires.


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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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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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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 Louis Lasdun (September 8th 1914 - January 11th 2001) was a British architect. He studied at the Archiectural Association in London.


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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.