Modern Architecture in an Oxford College: St John's College 1945-2005

by Geoffrey Tyack

In the sixty years since 1945 St John's College, Oxford has been one of the major patrons of modern architecture in Oxford and Cambridge, commissioning a series of innovative and successful buildings from a sequence of leading architectural practices. Geoffrey Tyack discusses these buildings in detail, with the help of copious illustrations, placing each building within the context of its architect's oeuvre and relating it to the changing character...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199271623
• ISBN13: 9780199271627
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.