Wells Wintemute Coates OBE (December 17, 1895 – June 17, 1958) was an architect, designer and writer.
Wells Wintemute Coates OBE (December 17, 1895 – June 17, 1958) was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an expatriate Canadian who is best known for his work in England, the most notable of which is the Modernist block of flats known as the Isokon building in Hampstead, London. The oldest of six children, Wells Coates was born in Tokyo, Japan on December 17, 1895 to Methodist missionaries Sarah Agnes Wintemute Coates (1864–1945) and Harper Havelock Coates (1865–1934).
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Wells Coates died of a heart attack in Vancouver on June 17. .There was also an earlier book, Wells Coates: a Monograph published in 1978. It was written by Sherban Cantacuzino and published by Gordon Fraser, London.
Wells Coates died of a heart attack in Vancouver on June 17, 1958 at the age of 63. Coates was married to Marion Grove in 1927. They had one child, Laura, and separated in 1937. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
Browsable as it is, this book breaks no new ground but instead reiterates the trend of finding contemporary interior uses for distinguished as well as ordinary older structures.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. Sherban Cantacuzino (Author). Browsable as it is, this book breaks no new ground but instead reiterates the trend of finding contemporary interior uses for distinguished as well as ordinary older structures. Most of the photographs of these examples of re-architecture are black and white, disappointing in such a design collection.
The standard work on Coates is Sherban Cantacuzino: Wells Coates A Monograph (Gordon Fraser 1978)
The standard work on Coates is Sherban Cantacuzino: Wells Coates A Monograph (Gordon Fraser 1978). It contains a full architectural biography and chronologies of Coates's works. Wells Coates Architect and Designer 1895-1958 is the book that accompanied the Coates travelling exhibition of 1979 (Oxford Polytechnic 1979). The Door to a Secret Room: A Portrait of Wells Coates by Laura Cohn is the most recent work. Most of the material on this site has been drawn from this book, but the book naturally contains much more information, in text and pictures.
Architecture in Continuity: Building in the Islamic World Today (Aga Khan Award). Category: Техника, Строительство. pdf, 10. 9 Mb. Charles Correa: architect in India. Hasan-Uddin Khan, Sherban Cantacuzino, Charles Correa
Architecture in Continuity: Building in the Islamic World Today (Aga Khan Award). Hasan-Uddin Khan, Sherban Cantacuzino, Charles Correa.
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