A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Built between 1961 and 1969, Cumbernauld town centre was intended by the town's newly established architects' department to be the centrepiece of a Modernist ‘utopia’ that would absorb Glasgow's overspill. It initially attracted architectural honours, but coverage then became damning. Reyner Banham said of it: ‘It shaped its times, and was shaped by them, most notably and depressingly in the use of raw off‐the‐form concrete … a weeping, sweeping, drip‐stained brown.’ As a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Gordon Murray has worked with the head of the school, Steven Spier, to focus all final‐year projects on Cumbernauld. This has resulted in a reappraisal and reappreciation of the much‐maligned megastructure.
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Built between 1961 and 1969, Cumbernauld town centre was intended by the town's newly established architects' department to be the centrepiece of a Modernist ‘utopia’ that would absorb Glasgow's overspill. It initially attracted architectural honours, but coverage then became damning. Reyner Banham said of it: ‘It shaped its times, and was shaped by them, most notably and depressingly in the use of raw off‐the‐form concrete … a weeping, sweeping, drip‐stained brown.’ As a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Gordon Murray has worked with the head of the school, Steven Spier, to focus all final‐year projects on Cumbernauld. This has resulted in a reappraisal and reappreciation of the much‐maligned megastructure.
Appreciating Cumbernauld
Murray, Gordon (author)
Architectural Design ; 76 ; 86-89
2006-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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