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If the University of Leicester’s Charles Wilson building were a transformer, how much fuel would it need to stand up? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In 1966, construction of the now infamous Charles Wilson building was completed. Unknown to its designer, Sir Denys Lasdun, it would later be affectionately known as the Optimus Prime building due to its uncanny resemblance to the transformer.
GRANT, Derryn
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From trades to professions. [PDF]

open access: yesJ R Soc Med, 2007
Black N.
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Tema Manhean, Tema (GH): Jane Drew & Maxwell Fry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In 1952, a year after Kwame Nkrumah became the first Prime Minister of what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the decision was made to build a brandnew harbour as part of the ambitious Volta River Project.
Provoost, Michelle
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Rhyme or Reason:That is the Question? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Noting that “the aesthetic should not be limited merely to the way things look” the organisers of this conference sought “in part to address the discursive limitation in architecture and related subjects by broadening the aesthetic discourse beyond ...
Roche, Jim
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The college building--ten years after. [PDF]

open access: yesJ R Coll Physicians Lond, 1974
Bomford R.
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Denys Lasdun: Un recorrido a través de la prefabricación en la arquitectura brutalista

open access: yes
El presente trabajo se centra en el estudio de las decisiones proyectuales que llevaron al arquitecto Denys Lasdun a emplear herramientas de modulación y prefabricación con el fin de adaptarse a un contexto histórico muy concreto. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y ante la necesidad de reconstruir una Europa que comenzaba a recuperarse en las décadas de
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