Chapter 5 – Sources for early British works
Langham House Close flats at Ham Common, Richmond-upon-Thames, by James Stirling with James Gowan, whose window arrangements influenced both Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Mayford approved school (image from Flickr user ‘joseph beuys hat’)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and the Smithsons’ Hunstanton School, Norfolk, both references for Shackcliffe Green School (Wayne Andrews/Esto; John Maltby/RIBA)
Louis Kahn’s Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building at the University of Pennsylvania with detached ‘servant’ towers, informing the design for Middleton parish hall (Julius Schulman archives, Getty Research Institute; Louis I Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission )
The innovative Crown Local Office designs borrowed from the portal frames of Jean Prouvé and the US SCSD school system (Prouvé estate)
