Gordon Cullen
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Thomas Gordon Cullen (1914-1994) was an influential English architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement and carried it on into the latter part of the 20th century. During his life he wrote and published Townscape, a book concentrating on this movement throughout urban design & town planning. He was a key figure and activist in the development of British theories of urban design in the post-war period.
For a while he teamed up with a student and formed an architectural firm with him. They won a competition in London in the 1980s and together built the Swedish Quays housing development in Docklands.
After his death David Gosling & Norman Foster collected various examples of his work and put them together in the book 'Visions of Urban Design'.
From 1958 until his death in 1994 Cullen lived in Berkshire, England.
[edit] References
- David Gosling and Foster Norman. Gordon Cullen: Visions of Urban Design. Academy Editions, 1996. ISBN 1854904353
[edit] Websites
- [1] The website containing information on the competition won by both Cullen and Price. The housing development is situated in Docklands on the Thames.
- [2] A page from the website above showing the plaque dedicated to the architects.
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