Will Power. (6th September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Finch, Paul
• Other Names: Hardingham Samantha guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 92:Number 5(2022)
• Page Start: 46
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2022-09-06
• Subjects: Richard Rogers -- Architectural Association (AA) -- John Lyall -- Centre Pompidou -- Paris -- Renzo Piano -- Peter Cook -- Art Net -- Archigram -- Cedric Price -- Riverside Studios, Hammersmith -- Splash swimming pool -- Sheringham -- Norfolk -- Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre -- Hamburg Ferry Terminal -- Jan Störmer -- Hôtel du Département des Bouches‐du‐Rhône -- Marseille -- Norman Foster -- Peckham Library building -- RIBA Stirling Prize -- Hanif Kara -- Blizard Building -- Whitechapel -- London School of Medicine and Dentistry -- Queen Mary University -- Palestra office building -- Blackfriars Road -- Tate Modern -- Southwark Jubilee Line -- The Sharp Centre for Design -- Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) -- Toronto -- Tottenham Hale Station -- North Greenwich -- Jubilee Line Extension -- Crossrail station -- Paddington -- Liverpool -- 'Fourth Grace' -- 'The Cloud', West Bromwich -- The Public -- National Lottery/Arts Council funding -- Cedric Price/Joan Littlewood 'Fun Palace' -- London Olympics of 2012 -- Singapore -- Clarke Quay -- British Pavilion -- 1992 Seville Expo -- Gao Yang international cruise terminal -- Shanghai -- aLL Design -- Marcos Rosello -- Neuron Pod; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2854
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: One of Alsop & Lyall's first built works was a swimming pool at Sheringham in Norfolk, close to Alsop's family home, and was a long, extruded form. Paul Finch followed Alsop's entire career through the eyes of a journalist, making the connection between the use of the formal extrusion as design tactic and many of the buildings and schemes that came later. Coupled with Alsop's non‐belief in the old 'form follows function' idiom, this allowed him to create vivacious architectural designs, urban districts and whole cities.