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Wells Coates’ studio apartment in Yeoman’s Row, 1935
Throughout 1935, Wells Coates worked on the design and construction of a studio house for himself, renovating a former artist's studio at 18 Yeoman's Row, London. It was a very delicate moment in his life and a minimal space, a real personal challenge. He managed to achieve one of the most brilliant exercises in spatial optimisation of his time. He condensed into less than 60m2 his trajectory up to that point with particular intensity, from his industrial roots, experimentation with new materials and forms, and dimensional adjustment, to his finely tuned emotional sensibility, formed in the Eastern tradition. Moreover, Coates found in that small but remarkably tall space the perfect occasion to test the system of spatial organisation in section that he was beginning to develop, and which has become over time his most important contribution to modern English architecture.
Wells Coates’ studio apartment in Yeoman’s Row, 1935
Throughout 1935, Wells Coates worked on the design and construction of a studio house for himself, renovating a former artist's studio at 18 Yeoman's Row, London. It was a very delicate moment in his life and a minimal space, a real personal challenge. He managed to achieve one of the most brilliant exercises in spatial optimisation of his time. He condensed into less than 60m2 his trajectory up to that point with particular intensity, from his industrial roots, experimentation with new materials and forms, and dimensional adjustment, to his finely tuned emotional sensibility, formed in the Eastern tradition. Moreover, Coates found in that small but remarkably tall space the perfect occasion to test the system of spatial organisation in section that he was beginning to develop, and which has become over time his most important contribution to modern English architecture.
Wells Coates’ studio apartment in Yeoman’s Row, 1935
Ignacio Román Santiago (author) / Luis Gil Guinea (author)
2021
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