Will Alsop

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Will Alsop (2010)

William "Will" Allen Alsop OBE , RA (born December 12, 1947 in Northampton ; † May 12, 2018 ) was a British architect and painter who worked in London . Alsop's buildings stand out with their bright colors and unusual and avant-garde shapes and are therefore sometimes a cause for public controversy . In 2000 he received the Stirling Prize for the newly built library in Peckham in south-east London.

Life

Alsop was the son of an accountant and grew up in Northampton in Northamptonshire. As a child he aspired to become an architect. When he was 16 years old, he started working for an architect and attended evening school.

Alsop was heavily influenced by Henry Bird, his drawing teacher on an elementary course at Northampton Art School. He remembered learning to draw from him:

“He gave me a brick, ordered me to draw it, and immediately left the room. I drew the brick in all its shades. When he came back he got angry and scolded me for destroying the drawing with the shadows. He shouted, 'What's wrong with simple lines?' He insisted that I repeat the drawing, this time using only simple lines so that I could understand the brick and its proportions. I drew the brick for three months, twice a week for three hours each time - always with simple lines. In the end, he acknowledged that I had mastered the brick and I was allowed to proceed to the tin can. "

He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where at the age of 23 he took part in an architecture competition for the Center Georges-Pompidou in Paris and came in second behind Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano . Before graduating, he worked with the architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in 1971 , who established New Building in Great Britain in the 1930s. He obtained his diploma in architecture in 1973. Alsop then worked with Cedric Price from 1973 to 1977 and with Roderick Ham from 1977 to 1979 .

In 1981 he and his fellow student John Lyall founded the Alsop & Lyall office in Hammersmith , London. Jan Störmer later joined the company and after Lyall left the company it was renamed Alsop & Störmer . Together with Zaha Hadid , he took part in the 1984 International Building Exhibition on Stresemannstrasse in Berlin.

Alsop's last company was called aLL Design and had offices in London and Chongqing . His London office was in a former dairy. The old building complex was named “Testbed1” and converted into a center for art exhibitions, galleries, creative companies and designers such as Vivienne Westwood. Testbed1 also houses the “Doodle Bar”, a bar where guests can paint the walls.

Alsop held several visiting professorships and was a. a. Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen . Since 1997 he has been a full professor at the Technical University of Vienna .

Despite his sometimes controversial buildings, he achieved a high international reputation and, along with Rogers and Norman Foster, is considered to be an important British architect. In 2000 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services .

Alsop was married and had three children.

Architectural style

Alsop saw Le Corbusier , Sir John Soane and Mies van der Rohe as his role models. Its avant-garde , modernist buildings stand out with their bright, bright colors and unusual shapes. Alsop used painting to clear his head before starting a new project, to think freely and to be able to start an uninfluenced creative design process:

“One of the reasons for painting is that you don't really have control over the result - and that interests me a lot. Instead of having a clearly defined starting point, which under certain circumstances leads to a series of logical thought processes in architecture, which then result in a designed building, you can start with painting wherever you like. "

For Alsop, the painting process, together with the close cooperation with the customer and the local community, was an important part of the urban planning and architecture.

In 2004 Alsop published the book Supercity , which led to a debate and television documentary as well as an exhibition at the Urbis Museum in Manchester . It describes his vision of a “super city”, a futuristic metropolitan area that extends along the M62 motorway in England. It includes a description of how the growing interconnectivity of the cities along this motorway is creating a new concept of the city, and how this could be further developed and result in a combination of rural and urbanity. The book also contained some architectural ideas for buildings and communities in the city. His ideas received political support, including from John Prescott , the former Deputy Prime Minister, but were also criticized.

The British newspaper The Observer wrote in 2007 that Alsop's approach to architecture was based on his statement, “I like people. I hope it shows “can be described.

Honors and prizes (selection)

  • Alsop received several honorary doctorates a . a. 2004 from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto and the University of Nottingham Trent School of Architecture.
  • He has received a number of architectural awards, including 2nd prize for the British Pavilion at the Seville World's Fair , Expo 92 . Alsop was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts on May 18, 2000 .
  • In 2008 he was made a Fellow of Queen Mary and Westfield College .
  • 1997: Honorary membership in the Association of German Architects BDA
  • 2000: Royal Academician
  • 2000: RIBA Stirling Prize for the Peckham Library, London
  • 2001: Concrete Society Award for Cardiff Bay Barrage
  • 2003: MIPIM - Future Project Prizes for The Public
  • 2005: Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Award, Award of Excellence
  • 2006: National Post DX Design Effectiveness Award for the Sharp Center for Design in Toronto
  • 2006: RIBA Education Award for Blizard Building
  • 2006: Civic Trust Award for Blizard Building and Fawood Children's Center
  • 2006: RIBA London Region Award for Fawood Children's Center
  • 2007: UK Structural Steelwork Awards for Palestra
  • 2007: RIBA Commercial Building Prize for Palestra
  • 2007: Cityscape Architectural Review Awards for Clarke Quay, Singapore
  • 2008: Cityscape Asia Awards: Best Waterfront for Clarke Quay, Singapore
  • 2008: Raffles City: Cityscape Asia Awards, Best Future Mixed-Use Development
  • 2009: The Chicago Athenaeum
  • 2012: British Construction Industry Regeneration Award for Bradford Bowl
  • 2013: Royal Town Planning Institute Award for Bradford Bowl

Buildings (selection)

Peckham Library in London
Sharp Center for Design in Toronto
Ferry terminal in Hamburg
  • 1990: Canary Wharf lifting bridges
  • 1993: Ferry terminal in Hamburg - Altona , together with Jan Störmer
  • 1994: Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille
  • 1995: Cardiff Bay Visitor Center, Cardiff
  • 1999: North Greenwich Tube Station, Greenwich
  • 2000: Peckham Library, London
  • 2001: Colorium , Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Muzinq Almere, Almere , Netherlands
  • 2004: Sharp Center for Design of the Ontario College of Art & Design , Toronto
  • 2004: Fawood Children's Center, Harlesden, London
  • 2005: Ben Pimlott Building at Goldsmiths, University of London , London
  • 2005: Blizard Building at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London
  • 2006: Alsop Toronto Sales Center, Toronto
  • 2006: Palestra office building , 197 , London
  • 2006: Clarke Quay, Master Plan, Singapore
  • 2007: Railway Station - Stratford Docklands Light Railway Station, London
  • 2008: The Public, West Bromwich
  • 2009: Raffles City, Beijing
  • 2009: New Islington, Manchester, UK
  • 2010: Gao Yang International Cruise Terminal, Shanghai
  • 2013: Bradford Bowl, Bradford

Exhibitions (selection)

Will Alsop was known to be constantly drawing or painting, either for his architectural projects or for himself. His artwork and sketches have been exhibited over the years, including the Sir John Soane Museum, the Milton Keynes Gallery, the Cube Gallery in Manchester and the British Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. Alsop was a supporter of the Nightingale Project, a charity that uses art to improve hospital environments. For this reason, some of his works of art can also be found in London hospitals. He also ran a series of workshops with psychiatric patients to work with them to create great collaborative works of art.

  • 2011 - Proper Behavior in the Park, Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • 2007 - Towards…, Chelsea Space, London
  • 2007 - Future City, The Barbican, London
  • 2007 - Cultural Fog, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto
  • 2007 - Bathing Beauties, The Hub: National Center for Craft & Design, Lincolnshire
  • 2007 - Creative Prisons, Touring exhibition
  • 2005 - Supercities, Urbis, Manchester
  • 2005 - Groundswell; MoMA, New York City
  • 2004 - Middlehaven Masterplan, Venice Biennale
  • 2002 - Malagarba Works, Will Alsop & Bruce McLean: Milton Keynes Gallery
  • 2002 - All Barnsley Might Dream, Venice Biennale
  • 2002 - Beauty, Joy & the Real, Sir John Soane Museum, London
  • 2001 - Not Architecture, Aedes East Gallery, Berlin
  • 2000 - Venice Biennale, British Pavillion
  • 2000 - National Institute of Architecture (NAI), Rotterdam
  • 1998 - Alsop Paintings & Architecture, Architekturgalerie, Stuttgart
  • 1997 - River of Dreams, Mayor Gallery, London
  • 1995 - Exhibition of Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London
  • 1992 - Selected Projects Exhibition, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
  • 1992 - Arc en Rêve, Hôtel du Département, Marseilles, Bordeaux
  • 1987 - Bridge / Beam / Floor / Roof, The Architecture Center, Bremen
  • 1985 - Paris Biennale Exhibition
  • 1974 - Group Exhibition: Fruit Market, Edinburgh

literature

Web links

Commons : Buildings by Will Alsop  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jason Sayer: British architect Will Alsop has died aged 70. In: archpaper.com - The Architect's Newspaper. May 13, 2018, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Lyn Barber: Firm foundations: Will Alsop: The interview. In: The Observer . April 8, 2007, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Will Alsop: Drawing on the experiences of life help create better work. In: Architects Journal , June 28, 2001.
  4. ↑ From Here To Modernity Architects - Will Alsop. In: Open2.net. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English). Peter Childs, Mike Storry: Alsop, Will . In: Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture . Routledge, London 2002, pp.
     19 (English).
  5. ↑ Photos on Zaha Hadid and Will Alsop on Stresemannstrasse. In: Architecture In Berlin. September 11, 2017, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c website “aLL Design”. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jon Watt: Will Alsop. (No longer available online.) In: Time & Leisure Local Lifestyle Magazine. September 24, 2013, archived from the original on May 14, 2018 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).
  8. ^ "The Doodle Bar" website. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Prof. Will Alsop OBE RA. In: Design Palais Vienna. Archived from the original on May 9, 2011 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ a b c d Tom Porter: Will Alsop - The Noise . Routledge , New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-54961-5 (English).
  11. ↑ Jonathan Leake, Steven Shukor: Prescott's northern Supercity could make London shrivel. In: The Sunday Times . February 15, 2004, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  12. ^ Will Alsop CV. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Olgakorper.com. Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.olgakorper.com
  13. ↑ Will Alsop RA. Royal Academy of Arts, July 18, 2008, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  14. ^ Queen Mary awards honorary fellowship to architect Will Alsop. Queen Mary, University of London, archived from the original on October 7, 2008 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).
  15. ^ Cardiff Bay Visitor Center. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Laura Della Badia: The Colorium Project. Dusseldorf. William Alsop. 2000. In: Floornature - Architecture Portal. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Alsop Toronto sales center launches major urban renewal project. In: World Architecture News. June 19, 2006, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  18. ↑ William Alsop. (pdf, 12 kB) British Council , April 22, 2005, archived from the original on July 4, 2007 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).
  19. ^ Art in Hospital - Will Alsop Exhibition.mpg. (YouTube video, 8:06 minutes) jennyshuangzhong, January 25, 2010, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  20. ↑ William Alsop. Art & Space Gallery, archived from the original on June 26, 2014 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Alsop, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsop, William Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2018