Lost Architectures

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This book features a selection of the numerous projects proposed by architects in the last two decades of the twentieth century, which would have added wonderful dimensions to the built environment and yet for many reasons never came to fruition. Most of the projects featured here have seldom, if ever, been published before, and some represent the last hand -drawn work of their creators before the age of the computer finally came into full force. Whilst they do not follow any specific style, these projects embody a spirit defined by Spiller as New Romanticism - a spirit which combines elements of aesthetic decadence and a certain camp mannerism with a love of angularity and mechanised ritual. * Provides a backdrop for the variety of architectural theoretical positions of today's well-known architects * Illustrates the less well-known starts of many careers, such as Alsop, Coates, Van Berkel, Peter St John and Denari

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Neil Spiller

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"This is an opportunity to glimpse some of the most exciting, yet hitherto hidden, work that has been produced by a broad range of architects, many of whom have since achieved recognition and acclaim, but some of whom remain in relative obscurity. It is also an essential document that preserves for prosterity projects which might otherwise have been truly lost in the course of time."--Architectural Design, April 2001
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