CHAPTER 25 - Notes
[534]. No sharp distinction has been made in this book between architects and engineers. Such engineers, from Telford to Candela, as have been responsible for work of architectural pretension deserve to be considered as architects, and monographic works on several of them will be found in the Bibliography.
[535]. See San Francisco Museum of Art, Domestic Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Region, San Francisco, 1949.
[536]. See Banham, P. R., ‘New Brutalism’, Architectural Review, CXVIII (1955), 355-61. See also Banham’s articles in the Architectural Review on ‘Neo-Liberty’, a term introduced by Paolo Portoghesi.
[537]. Consideration of such topics of current controversial interest more properly belongs in periodicals or special critical works than in a general history, but see the [Epilogue].
[538]. There is something symptomatic in the fact that the younger men, whether architects or critical writers, are mostly content to revive early controversial attitudes of the preceding half century rather than to offer anything really new. (See [Epilogue].)
[539]. See Holford, W., ‘The Precincts of St Paul’s’, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Lxiii (1956), 232-4.
[540]. See Aarhus Universitet, Hovedbygningen, Aarhus [n.d.].
[541]. The term skyscraper in this context is to be understood as meaning a very tall office building. Many European housing blocks, such as are discussed below, would have been considered skyscrapers a generation ago, and the same is true of much urban office building in central areas which often today rivals in height the German examples of the twenties mentioned in Chapter [20]. However, the significant skyscrapers of the post-war period are much taller than this, and—perhaps equally important—they characteristically stand in their own space, rising sheer from some sort of plaza at their base.
[542]. 9 James Cubitt (b. 1913), Stephan Buzas (b. 1915), Fello Atkinson (b. 1919), and Richard Maitland (b. 1917).
[543]. Osvaldo Luis Torro (b. 1914) and Miguel Ferrer (b. 1915).
[544]. Architects designing for prefabrication and above all structural experimenters such as Buckminster Fuller were certainly far bolder and more revolutionary in their concepts of the house as ‘controlled environment’ than are most of those who have so far built airports.
[545]. The death of Eero Saarinen in 1961 brought to a premature end the career of a typical, indeed a very leading, post-war architect whose mature production dated very largely from the years since the mid fifties when this book was originally written. (See [Epilogue].)
Monographs on such different architects as Philip Johnson and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill should appear almost coincidentally with this second edition and others are already in preparation.